Patel Gaurav P
Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Adv Med Educ Pract. 2018 Feb 8;9:93-97. doi: 10.2147/AMEP.S158000. eCollection 2018.
The use of an anesthesiology rotation in the realm of surgical education is not very well studied. Several studies show the importance of an anesthesiology rotation in the grand scheme of undergraduate medical education. However, its importance in perioperative medicine and surgical education is not very well understood. This study attempts to look at this relationship and determine whether or not a temporal relationship between this anesthesiology rotation and a surgical rotation is important.
I used an online survey tool to survey medical students who took the anesthesiology rotation (required rotation) in 2014 and 2015 (when rotation was coupled to surgical rotation) and compared those data to the data of students who took the rotation in 2016 (when the rotation was not coupled to surgery). I asked several questions looking at the importance of the anesthesiology rotation to surgical education and to perioperative medicine.
Having a required anesthesiology rotation appears to add value to the general surgery rotation in undergraduate medical education. Furthermore, when this rotation is paired with the general surgery rotation, it appears that the students learn more about perioperative medicine than when the rotation is paired with other "advanced" rotation.
The pairing of anesthesiology with a general surgery rotation does indeed improve the perioperative medicine education and knowledge of students. Students appreciate having a week of anesthesiology with the surgical rotation, and they note that it adds value to the general surgery rotation.
麻醉学轮转在外科教育领域的应用尚未得到充分研究。多项研究表明了麻醉学轮转在本科医学教育整体规划中的重要性。然而，其在围手术期医学和外科教育中的重要性尚未得到很好的理解。本研究试图探讨这种关系，并确定麻醉学轮转与外科轮转之间的时间关系是否重要。
我使用在线调查工具对2014年和2015年参加麻醉学轮转（必修轮转）的医学生进行了调查（当时该轮转与外科轮转相结合），并将这些数据与2016年参加该轮转的学生（当时该轮转未与外科相结合）的数据进行了比较。我询问了几个关于麻醉学轮转对外科教育和围手术期医学重要性的问题。
在本科医学教育中，必修的麻醉学轮转似乎为普通外科轮转增加了价值。此外，当该轮转与普通外科轮转相结合时，学生似乎比该轮转与其他“高级”轮转相结合时能学到更多关于围手术期医学的知识。
麻醉学与普通外科轮转相结合确实能提高学生的围手术期医学教育水平和知识。学生们赞赏在外科轮转期间有一周的麻醉学课程，他们指出这为普通外科轮转增加了价值。
