Early Intervention to Promote Medical Student Interest in Surgery and the Surgical Subspecialties

Patel, Madhukar S.; Khalsa, Bhavraj; Rama, Asheen; Jafari, Fariba; Salibian, Ara A.; Hoyt, David B.; Stamos, Michael J.; Smith, Brian R.

doi:10.1016/j.jsurg.2012.09.001

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“…While Antiel [8] has described the importance of the third-year surgical clerkship in stimulating interest in the surgical field, others have emphasized the importance of earlier intervention to impact a student's career choice. Patel [4] found that exposure to surgical skills through simulation laboratories during the first 2 years of medical school stimulated interest in a surgical career. Other studies have similarly emphasized the importance of early involvement of positive surgical influences to generate interest in a surgical career [5,8].…”

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“…As such, simulation courses have entered the curriculum for fourth-year medical students [6,7] to help students acquire fundamental skills to improve their experience during the core surgical rotation [4,8]. In a study by Franzeck et al [12], comparing training using a simulation laboratory to intraoperative camera navigation, students using the simulation laboratory were more efficient at attaining proficiency at laparoscopic skills.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With the impending shortage of general surgeons, it is of utmost importance that education becomes active to stimulate medical students' interest in a surgical career early in their training. This is critical as medical students are most likely to choose careers early in their medical education [4,5].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since students at Baylor College of Medicine start their core clerkships during their second year, this included both second-and third-year medical students who were on their first surgery rotation. In addition to engaging students with a hands-on learning experience, this course also provided students with an opportunity to interact directly with surgical faculty, which has been demonstrated to impact a student's decision on career choice [4]. Our study sought to observe the changes in career interest with the implementation of the simulation curriculum as well as to determine the effectiveness of the course in teaching and improving basic laparoscopic skills.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…Patel et al described student-organized half-day workshops known as "Surgery Saturday" (for first-and second-year medical students), in which surgical faculty introduced students to suturing, knot tying, open instrument identification, operating room etiquette, and basic laparoscopic skills (Patel et al, 2013). Similarly, Ullah et al described student-organized extracurricular Surgically Oriented Anatomy Prosectors (SOAP) club meetings, during which surgeons demonstrated surgical procedures on cadavers (Ullah et al, 2012).…”

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The role of student surgical interest groups and surgical Olympiads in anatomical and surgical undergraduate training in Russia

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2015

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Traditional department-based surgical interest groups in Russian medical schools are useful tools for student-based selection of specialty training. They also form a nucleus for initiating research activities among undergraduate students. In Russia, the Departments of Topographical Anatomy and Operative Surgery play an important role in initiating student-led research and providing learners with advanced, practical surgical skills. In tandem with department-led activities, student surgical interest groups prepare learners through surgical competitions, known as "Surgical Olympiads," which have been conducted in many Russian centers on a regular basis since 1988. Surgical Olympiads stimulate student interest in the development of surgical skills before graduation and encourage students to choose surgery as their postgraduate specialty. Many of the participants in these surgical Olympiads have become highly qualified specialists in general surgery, orthopedic surgery, neurosurgery, urology, gynecology, and emergency medicine. The present article emphasizes the role of student interest groups and surgical Olympiads in clinical anatomical and surgical undergraduate training in Russia.

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Early and prolonged opportunities to practice suturing increases medical student comfort with suturing during clerkships: Suturing during cadaver dissection

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Mishall

Weidmann

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Medical students are expected to perform common procedures such as suturing on patients during their third-year clerkships. However, these experiences are often viewed by medical students as stressors rather than opportunities for learning. The source of this stress is the lack of instruction on common procedures prior to being asked to observe or perform the procedure on a patient. First-time exposures to procedures in stressful environments may result in decreased confidence in medical students and decrease the frequency with which they perform these procedures in the future. The authors sought to change this paradigm by: (1) introducing a suturing module to first-year medical students in the context of the anatomy dissection laboratory and (2) measuring its effects on student attitudes and behavior over the course of their third-year clerkships when they encounter patients. The authors found that early and prolonged introduction to suturing was associated with increased student confidence relative to suturing a patient. Participation in the suturing module was associated with increased student confidence in identifying suturing instruments (P < 0.001) and suturing patients (P = 0.013). Further it positively affected their behavior as demonstrated by increased performance of suturing events from students exposed to the suturing module. (P < 0.001) This study demonstrates that early and prolonged opportunities to practice a procedural skill in a low-stress environment increases student confidence during patient interactions and alters student behavior.

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Early Intervention to Promote Medical Student Interest in Surgery and the Surgical Subspecialties

Cited by 68 publications

References 16 publications

More than a camera holder: teaching surgical skills to medical students

More than a camera holder: teaching surgical skills to medical students

The role of student surgical interest groups and surgical Olympiads in anatomical and surgical undergraduate training in Russia

Early and prolonged opportunities to practice suturing increases medical student comfort with suturing during clerkships: Suturing during cadaver dissection

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