Learning objectives for thoracic surgery: developing a national standard for undergraduate medical education.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) (Education) Committee of the Canadian Association of Thoracic Surgeons (CATS) has established a goal of describing the essential knowledge of thoracic surgery. We aimed to develop a national standardized set of undergraduate learning objectives for thoracic surgery.

Methods

We obtained these learning objectives from 4 medical schools in Canada. These 4 institutions were selected to provide a broad geographical representation of medical schools of varying sizes and of both official languages. The resulting list of learning objectives underwent critical review by the CPD (Education) Committee, made up of 5 Canadian community and academic thoracic surgeons, 1 thoracic surgery fellow and 2 general surgery residents. A nati

SUBMITTER: Jogiat U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10158750 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature