Residents
Training young doctors was always one of Professor Jaime Planas's greatest priorities. When he designed Clínica Planas, pioneering in its time as a specialist clinic dedicated exclusively to plastic and aesthetic surgery, he also created a residency with accommodation for five doctors in training.
Determined to ensure that this commitment to education would continue beyond his own lifetime, he later created the Jaime Planas Foundation, providing it with the resources required to support resident training. He also donated his prestigious plastic surgery library, for decades regarded as one of the most important collections of its kind in Europe.
Since then, hundreds of doctors have passed through the Foundation, continuing Professor Planas's commitment to sharing knowledge and educating new generations of plastic surgeons.
Manifesto
Why do we exist?
The answer seems obvious. To treat patients. But it is not enough. Because a patient can be treated by one great professional. Our house has a far more powerful reason. That the patient receives the best possible care regardless of who attends them.
Our clinic is a place where knowledge circulates so freely that any professional can keep growing. Because when knowledge stops moving, medicine stops advancing.
And when medicine stops advancing, the patient stops being at the centre, however much everyone says otherwise. Our house is not built around talent. It is built around learning. It does not matter who discovers a technique. What matters is that nobody has to discover it again from scratch.
It does not matter who solves a problem. What matters is that the solution becomes part of the collective intelligence of the organisation.
Our reason for existing is to keep knowledge from being lost.
That is our true heritage. Not a building in Barcelona. Not a brand.
We are knowledge that improves every time it changes hands. We work for people we have not met yet. For professionals who have not been born yet. And for patients who will never know who made the decisions that ended up improving their lives.
That is the quiet work of our house. Building continuity. Because surgery may last six hours. A consultation, thirty minutes. Our way of understanding medicine, more than half a century.
