Improvement of surgical performance of medical students after basic surgical suturing workshops

Gołębiowska Maria, Gołębiowska Beata, Huang Ting-I, Kuo Tzu Chi. Improvement of surgical performance of medical students after basic surgical suturing workshops. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(8):123-130. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1302127 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5615 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/869031 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 01.06.2018. Revised: 08.06.2018. Accepted: 27.06.2018. Improvement of surgical performance of medical students after basic surgical suturing workshops Maria Gołębiowska1, Beata Gołębiowska2, Ting-I Huang3, Tzu Chi Kuo4 1Student, I Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lublin 2Pediatric Neurology Department, III Chair of Pediatrics, Medical University of Lublin 3Youchang United Hospital, Kaoshiung, Taiwan 4Student, II Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Lublin Introduction Surgery, subject considered as one of the most demanding in medical education, fascinates medical students for centuries. And despite the possibilities of surgical observerships, as well as the passion and dreams of young adepts of medicine to acquire practical skills and experience in this fascinating field, we observe lack of practical aspect in medical undergraduate training. In order to allow medical students to experience basics of surgical reality, every year our team performs surgical suturing workshops for more than 50 students from all years within non-formal peer-to-peer education model. The Aim of the Study The aim of this study is to present the effectiveness of basic suturing training among 145 international students of Medical University of Lublin. Materials and methods The study group included 145 international students with no prior or little practical surgical experience, who attended surgical workshops in 15-participant groups in years 2014-2016. Both knowledge and technical performance were rated before and after conduction of the workshops. Results Within theoretical part of the training, 84% increase of knowledge in surgical procedures was observed. As for the practical skills, 71% of attendees decreased time of basic and continuous sutures performance by at least 50%. Non-formal peer-to-peer education model, as well as small groups and sufficient time for practice were noted as essential factor to the significant results of conducted workshop. Conclusions Basic surgical skills workshops serve as a great example of non-formal peer-to-peer training which improves practical abilities among attendees, as well as didactic and teamwork skills among senior students. Keywords MeSH: surgical skills, peer-to-peer training, medial educatio