ABSTRACT Background: Undergraduate Surgical Education is becoming an essential
element in the training of the future generation of safe and efficient surgeons. Essential Skills …

It is remarkable the reduction in the number of medical students choosing general surgery
as a career. In this context, new possibilities in the field of surgical education should be …

OBJECTIVE: Although several inanimate bench models have been described for training of
suture skills, so far, there is no ideal method for teaching and learning this skill during …

Background: The search for alternative and effective forms of training simulation is needed
due to ethical and medico-legal aspects involved in training surgical skills on living patients …

Background Simulators are useful tools in the development of laparoscopic skills. However,
little is known about the effectiveness of short laparoscopic training sessions and how …

PURPOSE: To assess the acquisition of suture skills by training on ethylene-vinyl acetate
bench model in novice medical students. METHODS: Sixteen medical students without …

Due to shortage of time and limited availability of faculty surgeons to teach basic surgical
skills during medical graduation, the search for alternative ways of simulated training with …

Objective To assess if the bench model fidelity interferes in the acquisition of rhomboid flap
skills by medical students. Methods Sixty novice medical students were randomly assigned …

Background: Because of ethical and medico-legal aspects involved in the training of
cutaneous surgical skills on living patients, human cadavers and living animals, it is …

Due to ethical and medical-legal drawbacks, high costs, and difficulties of accessibility that
are inherent to the practice of basic surgical skills on living patients, fresh human cadaver …