Almaliotis Diamantis, Athanasopoulos Georgios P, Almpanidou Stavroula, Papadopoulou Eleni P, Karampatakis Vasileios
Laboratory of Experimental Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2021 Nov 12;72:103034. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2021.103034. eCollection 2021 Dec.
The need for pre-training in experimental eye surgery is considered necessary. It is an essential way to assess trainees in ophthalmology based on their instrument and tissue handling and skills. This article aims to underline this necessity and demonstrate the ocular health professionals' opinion on this issue.
74 participants (45 females and 29 males) were included in the study. Ophthalmology residents, ophthalmologists participated in the wet lab session. The evaluation of the contribution of the wet labs were provided by filling a new questionnaire form. In this way, an interactive questionnaire was developed.
Regarding trainees' grading of wet labs' significance as a first step for guiding their surgical career, it was positively correlated with their subjective view of labs' utility to both improve their surgical skills (p = 0.001) and maintain pre-existing ones (p < 0.001). We should also note that all of them (100%) stated that wet labs were necessary during residency, especially in repeated sessions, and that they would recommend them to their colleagues.
The surgical skills improved significantly after participation in a wet lab, according to participants, who rated the experience as highly educational. Wet labs can reduce the learning curve of difficult surgical techniques, accelerate the rate for trainees to achieve surgical competency, and treat patients safely and effectively.
实验性眼科手术的预训练被认为是必要的。这是基于学员的器械操作、组织处理能力和技能来评估眼科住院医师的重要方式。本文旨在强调这种必要性，并展示眼科专业人员对该问题的看法。
74名参与者（45名女性和29名男性）纳入本研究。眼科住院医师、眼科医生参加了实操课程。通过填写一份新的问卷来评估实操课程的贡献。以此方式，开发了一份交互式问卷。
关于学员将实操课程的重要性作为指导其手术生涯第一步的评分，这与他们对实操课程在提高手术技能（p = 0.001）和维持已有技能（p < 0.001）方面实用性的主观看法呈正相关。我们还应注意到，他们所有人（100%）表示实操课程在住院医师培训期间是必要的，尤其是重复进行的课程，并且他们会向同事推荐。
参与者认为，参加实操课程后手术技能显著提高，他们将该经历评价为极有教育意义。实操课程可以缩短复杂手术技术的学习曲线，加快学员达到手术胜任能力的速度，并安全有效地治疗患者。
