Abstract
BackgroundDespite many high-quality programs in basic surgical-skill education, the surgical skill of junior doctors varies widely. This, together with the waning interest in surgery as a career among medical students, is a serious issue confronted by hospitals and healthcare systems worldwide. We, therefore, developed and implemented an intensive one-day surgical-skill training course for two purposes; it would improve surgical skills and increase interest in surgery among medical students.MethodsThe surgical-skill training program is named Surgical Skill Weekend (SSW) and it includes hands-on training sessions for surgical-suturing techniques and advanced surgical procedures (i.e. laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgery), hybrid simulation sessions, and an operating-room session where aforementioned sessions are all put together. By the end of the program, students’ improvements in surgical-suturing skills were assessed by experts in a form of checklist, and changes in the interest in a surgical career, if there were any, were answered by the students who participated in the program.ResultsA total of ninety-one (91) medical students participated in the 2015 and 2016 SSW courses. Their overall satisfaction level with the course was very high (Very satisfied: 78%, Quite satisfied: 22%). All of the participant’s surgical-suturing skills significantly improved (median score range: 14–20, P < 0.05) and their interest in a surgical career increased significantly (from 56% to 81%, P < 0.05) by completing the program.ConclusionsAn intensive and comprehensive surgical-skill training program for medical students can not only improve surgical-suturing skills but also increase interest in surgery as a career.
Highlights
Despite many high-quality programs in basic surgical-skill education, the surgical skill of junior doctors varies widely
Some years ago (2011), we developed a systemic, comprehensive, and intensive one-day~~ known as Surgical Skill Weekend (SSW), and recently updated it
A total of 91 students participated in the SSW program, including 46 in 2015 and 45 in 2016
Summary
Despite many high-quality programs in basic surgical-skill education, the surgical skill of junior doctors varies widely. Medical students have been instructed and trained in surgical skills in the operating room under the supervision of senior surgeons [1] Such apprenticeship training was once appropriate [2], in more recent decades the lack of standardization has emerged as a serious problem. These days, most surgeons consider the development of basic surgical-skill courses and. Despite the introduction of clinical-skill tests, surgical-skill performance varies widely among students This is partly due to the fact that training programs are still not standardized among institutions and, in some cases, such training programs vary from the real practice
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