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The contribution of wet labs in the education of ophthalmologists
BACKGROUND: 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 professional...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8604746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34824838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.103034 |
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author | Almaliotis, Diamantis Athanasopoulos, Georgios P. Almpanidou, Stavroula Papadopoulou, Eleni P. Karampatakis, Vasileios |
author_facet | Almaliotis, Diamantis Athanasopoulos, Georgios P. Almpanidou, Stavroula Papadopoulou, Eleni P. Karampatakis, Vasileios |
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description | BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS: 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. RESULTS: 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. CONCLUSION: 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-86047462021-11-24 The contribution of wet labs in the education of ophthalmologists Almaliotis, Diamantis Athanasopoulos, Georgios P. Almpanidou, Stavroula Papadopoulou, Eleni P. Karampatakis, Vasileios Ann Med Surg (Lond) Experimental Research BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS: 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. RESULTS: 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. CONCLUSION: 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. Elsevier 2021-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8604746/ /pubmed/34824838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.103034 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Experimental Research Almaliotis, Diamantis Athanasopoulos, Georgios P. Almpanidou, Stavroula Papadopoulou, Eleni P. Karampatakis, Vasileios The contribution of wet labs in the education of ophthalmologists |
title | The contribution of wet labs in the education of ophthalmologists |
title_full | The contribution of wet labs in the education of ophthalmologists |
title_fullStr | The contribution of wet labs in the education of ophthalmologists |
title_full_unstemmed | The contribution of wet labs in the education of ophthalmologists |
title_short | The contribution of wet labs in the education of ophthalmologists |
title_sort | contribution of wet labs in the education of ophthalmologists |
topic | Experimental Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8604746/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34824838 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.103034 |
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