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Surgeons as medical school educators: an untapped resource.

Lisa M Haubert1, David Way, Robert DePhilip

  • 1Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio 43221, USA.

Anatomical Sciences Education
|May 28, 2011
PubMed
Summary

Integrating surgeons into early medical education improved student perceptions of surgeons as educators. However, this initiative did not significantly alter students' career interest in surgery or their academic performance.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Education
  • Surgical Training
  • Curriculum Development

Background:

  • Surgeons possess extensive teaching experience with residents.
  • Medical students represent an underutilized audience for surgical education.
  • Early exposure to surgical faculty may influence medical students' career choices and perceptions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the impact of integrating surgeons as educators into the early medical school curriculum.
  • To evaluate changes in medical students' interest in surgery and their opinions of surgeons.
  • To determine if early surgical faculty involvement affects academic performance in anatomy.

Main Methods:

  • Implementation of five distinct programs involving surgical faculty in the first-year medical curriculum starting in 2008.

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  • Programs included anatomy dissection labs, cadaver surgery sessions, clinical pathologic conferences, mentorship, and clinical scenario-based anatomy reviews.
  • Data collection focused on student opinions, career interest surveys, and written examination performance.

    • Main Results:

    • All five implemented programs were successfully integrated into the medical school curriculum.
    • Student opinions regarding surgeons as educators showed significant improvement.
    • No significant changes were observed in students' overall interest in pursuing a surgical career or their performance on anatomy examinations.

    Conclusions:

    • Surgical faculty and trainees can be effectively integrated into the early medical school curriculum.
    • While early integration improved student perceptions of surgeons, its impact on career interest and academic performance requires longer-term observation.
    • The study demonstrates the feasibility and positive impact on student opinion of involving surgeons as educators earlier in medical training.