Current medical education and future possibilities for simulation-based hysterectomy model

Abstract

Simulation is a strategy or technique for creating an experience without having to go through the actual event. Simulation provides a multidimensional safety container for learning while also opening up opportunities not available in real-world learning. Surgical education has been founded on a learning-by-doing apprenticeship approach for almost a century, with a high patient volume used to teach residents certain surgical skills step by step under various levels of supervision. This traditional paradigm is currently hampered by a number of factors: Surgical techniques have gotten increasingly difficult and specific, resulting in a decrease in the number of patients undergoing particular treatments. During the COVID-19 pandemic (Coronavirus Disease-19), there are reduction in hysterectomy surgeries. This study reviews at the impact of simulation-based hysterectomy training on the education of obstetrics and gynecology residents. The study found out that in the last ten years, simulation-based hysterectomy models, both low- and high-fidelity simulator models, from abdominal, laparoscopic, or vaginal hysterectomy simulator models, have been used in medical education to improve residents' knowledge, skills, and confidence about the instruments and procedures involved in a hysterectomy. The simulation-based hysterectomy model, when combined with a didactic lecture and real instruments for instruction, can be incorporated into the teaching curricula of Obstetrics and Gynecology residencies. In the future, we will need to develop hysterectomy simulator models and using more difficult anatomic models and simulation situations.