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Published on: June 26, 2011
The intercollegiate Basic Surgical Skills Course
M Schijven1, R Klaassen, J Jakimowicz
1Department of Surgery, Catharina Hospital Eindhoven, Michelangelolaan 2, P.O. Box 1350, 5602 ZA, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. mschijv@zonnet.nl
Objective:
This study was undertaken to establish residents' progress in minimal access surgery (MAS) after attending the Intercollegiate Basic Surgical Skills Course (BSSC) by means of the Xitact LS500 laparoscopy simulator assessment program.
Methods:
Twenty-five surgical residents attended the BSSC in Leiden and Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Before and after the course, participants performed three "runs" on the Xitact LS500, featuring a standardized laparoscopic cholecystectomy clip-and-cut task. A control group of 25 interns not attending the course also performed two sessions of three runs. Parameters of interest were "score" and "time for completion of task".
Results:
No significant differences were found within the resident group for the parameters "time" and "score" when comparing outcomes pre- and post-BSSC. No significant differences were found comparing time and score between residents and interns on each of the six runs, except for time in run 2. Over six runs, both residents and interns became significantly faster.
Conclusions:
The Xitact LS500 cholecystectomy simulator did not detect significant improvement in MAS performance among a group of surgical residents attending the BSSC.
