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Principles and Practices for the Future of Surgical Education

Surgical training programs must always change to meet the needs of a field that is always changing. So, surgical education techniques must also change simultaneously to prepare trainees to do surgery independently.


During the medical school rotation called "surgical clerkship," students get their first taste of the operating room (OR). The focus of teaching moves from being based on theory to being based on practice.


Surgical education is a complicated process with both technical and non-technical parts. It requires the use of new learning methods and tests that can be tested to see how well they work.


Surgery is taught to medical students in school. They learn how to do surgery (OR) in the operating room. But when students enter the operating room (OR) as surgical clerkship trainees, the focus shifts from foundational teaching to hands-on clinical experience.


For surgeons to become good at their jobs, they must practice on patients hundreds of times. This training method has changed over the last century and is now known as the Halstedian model. Sadly, this model is in danger because of limits on duty hours, making it harder for trainees to get the experience they need.


Educators must think about metacognition and develop new tools to help students become skilled surgeons. They need to know how to pre-train learners, practice in a planned way, and build mental models.


Surgical education is how a surgeon learns how to do surgery safely and effectively. It is a team effort that includes medical students, residents, and doctors already in practice. Regulatory organizations, professional societies, and teaching institutions set the rules for this training.


The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has approved many surgical training programs in the US (ACGME). These highly structured programs aim to teach through lectures and hands-on experience, with increasing levels of responsibility that will eventually lead to independent practice and autonomy.


Great teachers know how to show their students that they care, how to teach them, and how to work as a team. These skills are important for safe and effective surgery, which requires understanding the situation of the surgical patient, being able to work with other members of the healthcare team, and being able to deal with stress.


Great surgical educators teach surgical steps and how to act in the operating room. They do this by giving verbal instructions and doing small physical things (like supporting or pulling back tissues, guiding and repositioning hands and instruments) to help the trainee develop their skills. With these methods, the educator can teach and reach surgical goals simultaneously.


Teaching people how to do surgery is a hard thing to do. There are many ways to teach medical students and trainees how to do surgery.


Even though there have been some new ways of training in the past few years, traditional methods like lectures, teaching at the bedside, and practical placements are still widely used.


For a competency-based approach to surgical training, there needs to be an efficient and effective way to test people's skills. This is to make sure that learners get accurate feedback on how they are doing and what they are learning.


Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional clinical placements have been rethought to make room for innovative, forward-thinking, and practical remote surgical teaching through audio (podcast), audio-visual, and interactive software modules in various modalities. This review looks at all of these methods. This is an important step toward figuring out how to teach surgery in the future when there aren't enough physical simulators.


In a world where health care is getting interdisciplinary, provider teams are replacing more complicated and traditional doctor-nurse-patient relationships; surgical education has to change to give graduates the skills they'll need for their future jobs.


In this age of team-based surgical training, surgical educators need to know how important assessment is and how it can help them figure out what their students need and which learning methods work best. To reach these goals, we must be committed to research, new ideas, and improving things.


Using an augmented reality simulation tool, we wanted to see how well a new way of teaching and testing operative surgical skills worked (AOSS). The main things that were found were that different micro-skills have different difficulty levels. A learner's place on the surgical learning curve may determine the relationship between competency and speed for a given task. A learner's performance when learning AOSS is better matched to individual rehearsal rather than guided instruction.

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