Consequences drawn from the evaluation of logbook-based surgical training for final year students
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Output type: Journal article
Author list: Busemann A., Von Bernstorff W., Heidecke C.
Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
Publication year: 2012
Journal: Zentralblatt für Chirurgie (0044-409X)
Volume number: 137
Issue number: 2
Start page: 165
End page: 172
Number of pages: 8
ISSN: 0044-409X
URL: http://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id:84859766875
Abstract
Background: The current training programme for final year medical students does not meet the requirements of surgery and is obviously not able to encourage young physicians to become surgeons. After finishing the surgical trimester, the motivation to become a doctor decreases considerably more strongly than after any other specialty dur-ing the final year programme. This emphasises the urgent need for a consequent redesign in-volv-ing modern educational programmes. Method: The present article represents a sys-tem-atic analysis of 70 logbooks used by final year med-ical students, which accompanied them dur-ing the surgical trimester from August 2008 to December 2009 at the Department of Surgery at the University of Greifswald, Germany. This analy-sis was subsequently compared to an eval-uation of the same students as to how valuable the logbook was for their surgical education by means of an anonymous questionnaire. Results: The results indicate that the general qual-ity of education during the surgical trimester was evaluated to be high, but that the use of a logbook in the current mode did not contribute to en-hance medical / surgical training programmes. Although most of the requested examinations and procedures were carried out by at least 70 % of the students, less than half of them had the -impression that the use of this specific logbook improved their education. The students ask for a more intense interaction with the tutor / mentor and request differentiated discussions about their personal stronger and weaker spots, as well as more bedside teaching, e. g., the terms of train-ing ward rounds with the consultant surgeon. Be-sides, they demand more supervised practical skill training in contrast to the often commonly prac-ticed learning by doing. Conclusion: The logbook is a powerful and effec-tive educational tool able to structure and examine medical training and skills. But the present evaluation of the surgical logbook indicates that there is a need to adapt the current version to student's and institution's requirements. Otherwise it will only be seen as a purely labour intensive obligation, which will consequently lead to frustration and will not enrich the surgical training programme within the final year of medical school. © 2012 Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart • New York.
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logbook, medical education, portfolio, surgical trimester
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