Development of laparoscopic skills in Medical students naive to surgical training

• Autor(a) principal: Cavalini,Worens Luiz Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Claus,Christiano Marlo Paggi, Dimbarre,Daniellson, Cury Filho,Antonio Moris, Bonin,Eduardo Aimoré, Loureiro,Marcelo de Paula, Salvalaggio,Paolo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Einstein (São Paulo)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1679-45082014000400467
• topic: Students, medical; Laparoscopy; Models, educational; Surgical procedures, operative/education

Objective To assess the acquisition of basic laparoscopic skills of Medical students trained on a surgical simulator.Methods First- and second-year Medical students participated on a laparoscopic training program on simulators. None of the students had previous classes of surgical technique, exposure to surgical practice nor training prior to the enrollment in to the study. Students´ time were collected before and after the 150-minute training. Skill acquisition was measured comparing time and scores of students and senior instructors of laparoscopic surgeryResults Sixty-eight students participated of the study, with a mean age of 20.4 years, with a predominance of first-year students (62%). All students improved performance in score and time, after training (p<0,001). Score improvement in the exercises ranged from 294.1 to 823%. Univariate and multivariate analyses identified that second-year Medical students have achieved higher performance after training.Conclusions Medical students who had never been exposed to surgical techniques can acquire basic laparoscopic skills after training in simulators. Second-year undergraduates had better performance than first-year students.