Skills transfer to sinus surgery via a low-cost simulation-based curriculum.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgical skill development outside the operating room aims to improve technique and subsequent patient safety. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the correlation between technical and cognitive skills with cadaveric endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) performance and change in ESS performance before and after implementation of a dedicated ESS simulation-based and knowledge-based curriculum.

Methods

A before-after study design was implemented among 10 medical students and 10 junior otolaryngology residents. Participants completed a knowledge-based, multiple-choice ESS pretest and watched an ESS prosection video. Participants performed 9 tasks on a previously validated low-cost, low-technology, nonbiologic sinus surgery task trainer followed by cadaveric maxillary

SUBMITTER: Harbison RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5880692 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature