An Experience in Surgical Anatomy to Provide First-Year Medical Students with an Early Exposure to General Surgery: A Pilot Study

The Influence of Surgical Demonstrations During an Anatomy Course on the Perceptions of First-Year Medical Students Toward Surgeons and a Surgical Career

“…The structure and format of the surgical demonstrations has been described previously. 11 Briefly, the demonstrations were conducted in conjunction with the regularly scheduled cadaver dissection curriculum in the gross anatomy course. A faculty member from the Department of Surgery gave an overview of pancreatic malignancies and their management, with an emphasis on the surgical aspects.…”

“…8 The benefit of early interactions between surgeons and junior year medical students to increase interest in the field is well documented. 9, 10 We previously demonstrated the educational benefit of surgical demonstrations by surgical faculty to first-year medical students 11 ; however, the influence of this type of surgical demonstration on the perceptions of medical students about surgeons and a career in general surgery has not been studied. The aim of the current study was to analyze the influence of surgical demonstrations conducted during a gross anatomy course on the perceptions of first-year medical students about surgeons and a possible surgical career.…”

Simulation techniques in the anatomy curriculum: review of literature

“…However, this process depends on both, student and teachers. To eliminate mistakes and also standardise the teaching process universities introduced clinical shoulder hemi-arthroplasty were performed with or without a student's help [3,34]. Some programs go one step further and teach preclinical students how to behave in a sterile surgical environment [10].…”

Use of Cadaver Models in Point-of-care Emergency Ultrasound Education for Diagnostic Applications

“…Several authors have documented success with teaching, demonstrating, and practicing highly skilled procedures such as femoral US-guided central venous access, tube thoracostomy, cricothyrotomy, and other technical surgical procedures using cadaver models (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)16,17). Frezza et al demonstrated that a cadaver training program can be an effective adjunct to training surgical residents in performance and interpretation of the FAST examination; in that study, free intraperitoneal fluid was simulated in cadaver models by infusing different volumes of normal saline, allowing residents to be tested on FAST examination performance and interpretation (10).…”