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Promoting Undergraduate Surgical Education: Current Evidence and Students’ Views on ESMSC International Wet Lab Course
| Title: | Promoting Undergraduate Surgical Education: Current Evidence and Students’ Views on ESMSC International Wet Lab Course |
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| Authors: | Michail Sideris, Apostolos Papalois, Korina Theodoraki, Ioannis Dimitropoulos, Elizabeth O. Johnson, Efstratia-Maria Georgopoulou, Nikolaos Staikoglou, Georgios Paparoidamis, Panteleimon Pantelidis, Ismini Tsagkaraki, Stefanos Karamaroudis, Michael E. Potoupnis, Eleftherios Tsiridis, Panagiotis Dedeilias, Savvas Papagrigoriadis, Vassilios Papalois, Georgios Zografos, Aggeliki Triantafyllou, Georgios Tsoulfas |
| Source: | Journal of Investigative Surgery, Vol 30, Iss 2, Pp 71-77 (2017) |
| Publisher Information: | Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. |
| Publication Year: | 2017 |
| Collection: | LCC:Surgery |
| Subject Terms: | undergraduate surgical education, simulation-based training, basic surgical training, wet lab, in vivo, ex vivo, Surgery, RD1-811 |
| More Details: | Background: Undergraduate Surgical Education is becoming an essential element in the training of the future generation of safe and efficient surgeons. Essential Skills in the Management of Surgical Cases (ESMSC), is an international, joint applied surgical science and simulation-based learning wet lab course. Methods: We performed a review of the existing literature on the topic of undergraduate surgical education. Following that, we analyzed the feedback questionnaire received 480 from 2 recent series of ESMSC courses (May 2015, n = 49 and November 2015, n = 40), in order to evaluate European Union students' (UK, Germany, Greece) views on the ESMSC course, as well as on the undergraduate surgical education. Results Using a 10 point graded scale, the overall ESMSC concept was positively evaluated, with a mean score of 9.41 ± 0.72 (range: 8–10) and 8.94 ± 1.1 (range: 7–10). The majority of delegates from both series [9.86 ± 0.43 (range: 8–10) and 9.58 ± 0.91 (range: 6–10), respectively] believed that ESMSC should be incorporated in the undergraduate surgical curriculum. Comparison of responses from the UK to the Greek Medical Student, as well as the findings from the third and fourth year versus the fifth and sixth year Medical Students, revealed no statistically significant differences pertaining to any of the questions (p > 0.05). Conclusions: Current evidence in the literature supports the enhancement of surgical education through the systematic use of various modalities that provide Simulation-Based Training (SBT) hands-on experience, starting from the early undergraduate level. The findings of the present study are in agreement with these previous reports. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 0894-1939 1521-0553 08941939 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/0894-1939; https://doaj.org/toc/1521-0553 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08941939.2016.1220652 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/a064842f5b954f33955f08021bee8639 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.064842f5b954f33955f08021bee8639 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
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| ISSN: | 08941939 15210553 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/08941939.2016.1220652 |
| Published in: | Journal of Investigative Surgery |
| Language: | English |