[Vascular microsurgery course: 40 years at the Centro Médico Nacional 20 de Noviembre (ISSSTE) and 33 years at the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM].

On June 1977, "Centro Médico Nacional 20 de Noviembre," in Mexico City, implemented the first vascular microsurgery course. The aim was to develop clinical applications of microsurgery focus on surgical specialties, due to the necessity to develop microsurgical skills. On August 1964 we started the program course at the surgical department of the School of Medicine at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Actually, our course is given five times a year at 20 de Noviembre hospital, and four times at the UNAM. One June 2017, the Experimental Surgical Department at "Centro Médico Nacional 20 de Noviembre" reached 40 continuous or uninterrupted years of successfully teaching the microsurgical vascular skills. The aim of this study is to evaluate the satisfaction degree among the students. For that propose, a written survey was applied one year later, after successfully completed the course. These results reveal a satisfaction rate of 80% among these students.