SAGES Mini Med School: inspiring high school students through exposure to the field of surgery.
Autor: | Rosser JC Jr; University of Central Florida College of Medicine, 6850 Lake Nona Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32827, USA., Legare TB; University of Central Florida College of Medicine, 6850 Lake Nona Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32827, USA. tblegare@knights.ucf.edu., Jacobs C; University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA., Choi KM; University of Central Florida College of Medicine, 6850 Lake Nona Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32827, USA., Fleming JP; University of Central Florida College of Medicine, 6850 Lake Nona Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32827, USA., Nakagiri J; University of Central Florida College of Medicine, 6850 Lake Nona Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32827, USA. |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Zdroj: | Surgical endoscopy [Surg Endosc] 2018 Oct; Vol. 32 (10), pp. 4235-4243. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Apr 02. |
DOI: | 10.1007/s00464-018-6171-7 |
Abstrakt: | Objective: The SAGES Mini Med School (SMMS) was designed to expose high school students to the field of surgery through mentoring, knowledge transfer, and hands-on experience with simulation. The objective of this paper is to profile the evolutionary development, performance metrics, and satisfaction queries of this innovative effort. Methods: Sixty-one high school students, grades 9-12, took part in the (SMMS) program during the 2015 SAGES Annual Congress. The students completed a surgical skills lab session where they attempted tasks associated with the development of open surgical and laparoscopic skills. The lab included a warm-up with the validated Super Monkey Ball video game, Top Gun Pea Drop task, FLS Peg Transfer task, open knot tying station, and open instrument tie station. Results: The following are the results of the surgical skills lab. For the Super Monkey Ball task, 60 students participated with an average score of 73.0 s (SD = 53.9; range 59.1-87.0; median = 74). Sixty students participated in the Surgeons Knot and Pea Drop tasks with average times of 26.6 s (SD = 19.3; range 21.7-31.6; median = 21.0) and 113.8 s (SD = 65.9; range 96.6-131.0; median = 101.0), respectively. Sixty students participated in the Instrument Tie and 56 students participated in the Peg Transfer stations with average times of 51.7 s (SD = 34.5; range 42.8-60.6; median = 39.5) and 173.1 s (SD = 25.0; range 166.4-179.8; median = 180.0), respectively. 51 (83.6%) agreed that the Mini Med School made them more likely to consider a career in medicine. When asked if the program made them more likely to consider a career in surgery 42 (68.8%) agreed. All 61 respondents (100%) said that they would recommend the program to others. Conclusions: The SMMS program showed that the students had an excellent aptitude for the performance of validated surgical subtasks with high satisfaction, and increased consideration of a career in medicine/surgery. Long-term studies are needed to evaluate the impact on workforce recruitment. |
Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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