title: Guidelines and enabling objectives for training primary healthcare providers, gynecologists and obstetric and gynecology residents in Female Pelvic Floor Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery.
abstract: For four decades, the training for fellows in Urogynecology has been defined by taking into account the proposals of the relevant international societies. Primary health care providers and general OB/GYN practitioners could not find validated guidelines for the integration of knowledge in pelvic floor dysfunctions. The FIGO Working Group (FWG) in Pelvic Floor Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery has looked for the consensus of international opinion leaders in order to develop a set of minimal requirements of knowledge and skills in this area.
  
  
  
  This manuscript is divided into three categories of knowledge and skills, these are: to know, to understand, and to perform in order to offer the patients a more holistic health care in this area.
  
  
  
  The FWG reached consensus on the minimal requirements of knowledge and skills regarding each of the enabling objectives identified for postgraduate obstetrics and gynecology physicians and for residents in obstetrics and gynecology.
  
  
  
  Our goal is to propose and validate the basic objectives of minimal knowledge in pelvic floor medicine and reconstructive surgery. Neurourol. Urodynam. 36:514-517, 2017. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Contreras Ortiz
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Baharain.
authors.forename: Diaa Ee
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Rizk
authors.affiliation: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "San Bortolo" Hospital, Vicenza, Italy.
authors.forename: Gabriele
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Falconi
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil.
authors.forename: Lucas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Schreiner
authors.affiliation: Department of Urogynecology, Instituto Nacional de Perinatología, México.
authors.forename: Viridiana
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gorbea Chávez
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006176:Gynecology / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000193:education*; D017773:Pelvic Floor / Q000601:surgery*; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000193:education*
keywords: education; enabling objectives; guidelines for training; pelvic floor medicine and reconstructive surgery; postgraduate specialists in obstetrics and gynecology; residents in obstetrics and gynecology