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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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Autores principales: Almaliotis, Diamantis, Athanasopoulos, Georgios P., Almpanidou, Stavroula, Papadopoulou, Eleni P., Karampatakis, Vasileios
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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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
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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/).
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Athanasopoulos, Georgios P.
Almpanidou, Stavroula
Papadopoulou, Eleni P.
Karampatakis, Vasileios
The contribution of wet labs in the education of ophthalmologists
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