The SAGES Education and Research Foundation was founded to be an alternative resource for minimal access surgical research and education. Through focused grant-making, the SAGES Foundation provides institutions, physicians, fellows and academicians with funding support to create evidence-based standards of practice , develop up-to-date training programs, and carry out long term research that others will not fund.
Common endeavors supported by the foundation are:
- Educational programs in minimally invasive surgical techniques and procedures
- Assessment tools and methodology of surgical skills and competence
- Development of surgical trainers and educators
- Technology that supports and advances minimally invasive surgery
- Preceptorship networks
- Development of surgical training tools
- Outcomes studies
- New and emerging minimally invasive research
- Research fellowships