Cadaver Course in the Training System of an Urgent Surgeon

Abstract

Introduction. In our country, severe concomitant injury is one of the main causes of death among people of working age. This poses an urgent task for the national health care and education system in the form of training qualified emergency surgeons.Purpose of the study. To improve the quality of practical training of specialists in the delivery of urgent surgical care for concomitant injury.Material and methods. The “Cadaver course of operative surgery for severe concomitant injury” was developed. The participants of the cadaver course were senior students of the Ryazan State Medical University. At the stages of the course, theoretical training was carried out, work in a cadaver operating room with mentors and independently was performed, as well as a comparative assessment of learning outcomes with the results of similar tests of clinical residents of the 2nd year of study.Results. Statistically significant differences were obtained in terms of indicators reflecting the level of practical training of students who completed the developed course. The level of theoretical training in the compared groups did not differ significantly.Conclusion. New opportunities have been opened for the widespread introduction of the developed training course into the educational process. It is necessary to further improve the proposed methodology and study the results of its use.

Keywords

• cadaver course
• training of surgeons
• urgent surgery