Simulation-based skills training: a qualitative interview study exploring surgical trainees' experience of stress.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Stress can affect the ability to acquire technical skills. Simulation-based training (SBT) courses allow surgical trainees to train their technical skills away from stressful clinical environments. Trainees' subjective experiences of stress during SBT courses on laparoscopic surgery remains understudied. Here, we explored the subjective stress experiences of surgical trainees during mandatory laparoscopic SBT courses. We aimed to obtain a broader understanding of which factors of the simulation training the trainees perceived as eliciting stress.

Methods

A qualitative study with semistructured individual interviews was undertaken to explore trainees' subjective experiences of stress. Twenty surgical trainees participated while attending courses at a national tra

SUBMITTER: Tjonnas MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9588224 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature