Perspectives on Intraoperative Teaching: Divergence and Convergence Between Learner and Teacher

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

“…[12] Surgical skills are learnt by trainees through an apprenticeship system, where consultants act as guides to trainees rotating through their units within a set period of time. [34] A combination of teaching methods including supervised exposure to graded operative experience and didactic with feedback sessions imparts knowledge and technical skills.…”

“…[1] Accuracy, speed, economy of effort and adaptability are determinants of surgical skill. Thus, coordination of actions, time and motion efficiency and the ability to provide assistance or make use of assistance appropriately are important factors in surgical handicraft.…”

“…Surgical residents will spend > 10,000 h or over half of their clinical training experience in the operating room[1] and will have less exposure to high volumes of surgical work than before for two reasons. First, in this era of operating theater efficiency, there is pressure to keep “turnover” in the operating room high, which allows less time for the consultant to teach and less opportunity for the trainees to learn and practice their skills.…”

Surgical education and adult learning: Integrating theory into practice

“…Trainees and trainers can have widely disparate views of the clinical teaching encounter 39 . Good communication remains the key.…”

Presidential address: Engendering operative autonomy in surgical training

“…When attending surgeons and surgery residents are surveyed regarding operative teaching, there is a broad discrepancy between the 2 groups as to the needs, expectations, and results. 6,16 Clearly, a model needs to be developed for improving intraoperative teaching, but this is a matter for a different discussion.…”