Basic skills for outpatient surgery in medical graduation

Abstract

Medical students must have domain of basic surgery skills before starting more advanced stages of surgical learning. The authors present a practical and reproducible system of operative techniques circuit, idealized and often applied to the fourth year medical students of a private educational institution. This method has enabled accurate assessment of students' skills, improving their performance and preparing them for more advanced stages of the surgical learning.

How to do it: Teaching surgical skills to medical undergraduates

“…National and international guidelines define some mandatory procedures that must be taught to medical students such as suture techniques, thoracentesis, paracentesis, and pleural drainage. Students must be capable of performing clinical and surgical procedures in outpatient care and initial emergency care in all stages of the biological cycle [ [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] ].…”