Accelerated Skills Preparation and Assessment for Senior Medical Students Entering Surgical Internship

Design for success: Identifying a process for transitioning to an intensive online course delivery model in health professions education

“…In fact, these authors recommend adoption of an intensive ‘bootcamp’ model at the beginning of residency to develop requisite technical skills [26, p.748]. IC models have been successfully used in other pre-residency and final year medical school courses, including musculoskeletal injury management in primary care [27], colonoscopy training [28], and surgical specialty skills preceding surgical residency [29]. With the advent of accelerated medical school education [30], an IC may be a viable method in streamlining traditional courses throughout medical school education.…”

Proposal of a synthetic ethylene-vinyl acetate bench model for surgical foundations learning: suture training

“…Due to ethical and legal aspects involved in the use of cadavers, experimental animals, and real patients, for training purposes, coupled with the high cost and difficulties in obtaining virtual reality training models, the teaching of surgical techniques necessary for the education of physician has become extremely difficult [1][2][3][4] . Synthetic bench models were developed as an alternative for teaching surgical instrument techniques, learning how to suture technique plus the practice of various procedures such as small excisions and surgical flap during medical training 1,[5][6][7] .…”

“…To this end, there is a plethora of synthetic materials available such as latex forms, surgical gloves, polyurethane cartons, subcuticular suturing models (Simulab Corp . This form of teaching is designed with the student´s needs in mind 8 with chief aim of preparing students before exposure to clinical practice 3,5 . To achieve this goal, these inanimate simulators offer a series of benefits, such as stress reduction while learning, and an opportunity for organized repetitive practice, compared to the real world situation of learning strictly by observation.…”

“…To achieve this goal, these inanimate simulators offer a series of benefits, such as stress reduction while learning, and an opportunity for organized repetitive practice, compared to the real world situation of learning strictly by observation. In addition, errors in execution of the maneuvers are harmless, whereas learning by one´s mistakes in this way would be unthinkable in the clinical setting [1][2][3]7,8 . The purpose of this study was describes and propose the use of EVA as a learning tool for simple surgical techniques, principally in teaching suturing techniques in medical students.…”

Evaluation of the use of patient-focused simulation for student assessment in a surgery clerkship

“…6 Although there have been numerous published reports of the use of simulated patients to assess surgical residents, [7][8][9][10] and medical students in surgical clerkships, [11][12][13] there has been less attention directed toward the assessment of trainees' surgical skills, and the related development of OSCE stations that combine both simulated patients and simulation models. [14][15][16][17] Naylor et al recently reported on the use of simulation models to assess skills proficiency, 18 and LeBlanc et al reported on a study of 16 medical students and residents in a validation of an integrated assessment of third-year students' technical and communication skills. 19 The goal of this study was to develop an OSCE by using a combination of simulated patients in conjunction with anatomical and tissue task-training simulation models to assess medical students' clinical skills at the end of a required surgery clerkship.…”