Efforts to Enhance Operating Room Teaching

Teaching the surgical craft: Surgery residents perception of the operating theater educational environment in a tertiary institution in Nigeria

“…When the teaching setting is within a busy surgery residency program, where consultants have to combine teaching responsibilities with patient care, it becomes a lot of challenges. [1314] In addition, there are very limited established platforms within, which surgeons can learn to teach surgical skills, critically examine their teaching or evaluate its efficacy. Neither is there an accepted format for trainees in surgery to contribute their views about the teaching they receive.…”

“…Consultants cannot improve their teaching in the operating theatre if they do not fully understand those teaching behaviors that support or discourage learning. [14] In their landmark articles on teaching in the operating theatre, Vollmer et al . [1] and Jeffree and Clarke[15] emphasized several adult learning-based surgical teaching approaches to enhance feedback.…”

Preoperative Learning Goals Set by Surgical Residents and Faculty

“…With mounting stress on the current method of training [1][2][3], residents' experience in the operating room is becoming increasingly more precious. However, by its very nature, the operating room is an unstructured learning environment [4,5]. Residents must take in myriads of information including, but not limited to, patient presentation and selection of operation, patient positioning, anatomic and technical aspects of the operation, interaction with the care team, and plans for postoperative care.…”

Medical Student Teaching: A Peer-to-Peer Toolbox for Time-Constrained Resident Educators

“…Even within our field, few studies have examined the effectiveness of varied teaching methods in the operating room. 10,26 However, students can become active learners in the operating room with several simple modifications to the regular routine:…”

“…Enthusiasm has been identified as the most important trait of effective teachers, but even the most enthusiastic of resident educators cannot escape time constraints. 10,11 Evidence also exists that the feelings expressed by residents in our program are shared by trainees at other institutions. [12][13][14][15] Such time pressures have always been present in surgical residency, but the implementation of duty-hour restrictions has magnified the issue.…”