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The Teaching Of Procedural Skills During Surgery Rotation: Are Students Learning Enough?, Samantha Wood

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

This study has several aims: 1. assess student exposure to procedural skills training during the core surgery rotation, 2. determine whether procedural goals set by the Yale Department of Surgery are being met, 3. investigate potential discrepancies in education in procedures based on the gender of the student, and 4. evaluate who is providing the majority of procedural training to students (i.e. residents or faculty, women or men, etc). An original survey was distributed to third-year medical students at the completion of their core surgery clerkship. It assessed their experiences with a list of 22 procedures and collected demographic data. …