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Advanced trauma life support course for medical students. A new era?
INTRODUCTION: Trauma represents a major public health issue and is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. A systematic approach toward dealing with trauma patients was facilitated through the ATLS program, which has become a milestone in trauma care. Our new ATLS course for med...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9843698/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36660197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2022.1025920 |
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author | Vassiliu, Panteleimon Mavrogenis, Andreas Theos, Christos Koulouvaris, Panagiotis Massalis, Ioannis Geranios, Angelos Bartsokas, Christos Gerazounis, Michael Tepetes, Konstantinos Kamparoudis, Apostolos Stergiopoulos, Spyros Stavropoulos, Michael Androulakis, John |
author_facet | Vassiliu, Panteleimon Mavrogenis, Andreas Theos, Christos Koulouvaris, Panagiotis Massalis, Ioannis Geranios, Angelos Bartsokas, Christos Gerazounis, Michael Tepetes, Konstantinos Kamparoudis, Apostolos Stergiopoulos, Spyros Stavropoulos, Michael Androulakis, John |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Trauma represents a major public health issue and is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. A systematic approach toward dealing with trauma patients was facilitated through the ATLS program, which has become a milestone in trauma care. Our new ATLS course for medical students was set in motion in 2015. Our aim was to make medical students familiar with trauma patients interactively, through a program like ATLS, and here we present the results of this endeavor. METHODS: A two-day ATLS-Medical Student (MS) course was offered from November 2015 to July 2018, and analysis was performed retrospectively on the data gathered over a three-month period through online questionnaires. Before graduating, 261 newly qualified medical doctors were interviewed and evaluated as part of the ATLS course. RESULTS: After the course, the vast majority of medical students (251 MSs; 96.16%) felt more capable of managing severely injured patients and 58% of students felt that the medical services they offered were better due to the ATLS training. Regarding the educational fee for the course, 56.7% of the students reported that they felt the fee of 100 euros was fair. DISCUSSION: The interactive format of the course, which differs from more traditional methods of teaching, has been endorsed by medical students. Though they lack clinical experience, that does not prohibit them from acquiring more specialized or specific knowledge, enabling them to excel. Most of the students improved their skillset either in theoretical knowledge, practical skills, or even in the emotional component of the course, i.e., dealing with treating a severely injured patient. It was decided that the program would be re-evaluated and extended to all Greek Medical Schools. CONCLUSION: The advantage of providing doctors with trauma training at the beginning of their careers is evident. For that reason, it was decided that the program would be re-evaluated and extended to all Greek Medical Schools. |
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spelling | pubmed-98436982023-01-18 Advanced trauma life support course for medical students. A new era? Vassiliu, Panteleimon Mavrogenis, Andreas Theos, Christos Koulouvaris, Panagiotis Massalis, Ioannis Geranios, Angelos Bartsokas, Christos Gerazounis, Michael Tepetes, Konstantinos Kamparoudis, Apostolos Stergiopoulos, Spyros Stavropoulos, Michael Androulakis, John Front Surg Surgery INTRODUCTION: Trauma represents a major public health issue and is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. A systematic approach toward dealing with trauma patients was facilitated through the ATLS program, which has become a milestone in trauma care. Our new ATLS course for medical students was set in motion in 2015. Our aim was to make medical students familiar with trauma patients interactively, through a program like ATLS, and here we present the results of this endeavor. METHODS: A two-day ATLS-Medical Student (MS) course was offered from November 2015 to July 2018, and analysis was performed retrospectively on the data gathered over a three-month period through online questionnaires. Before graduating, 261 newly qualified medical doctors were interviewed and evaluated as part of the ATLS course. RESULTS: After the course, the vast majority of medical students (251 MSs; 96.16%) felt more capable of managing severely injured patients and 58% of students felt that the medical services they offered were better due to the ATLS training. Regarding the educational fee for the course, 56.7% of the students reported that they felt the fee of 100 euros was fair. DISCUSSION: The interactive format of the course, which differs from more traditional methods of teaching, has been endorsed by medical students. Though they lack clinical experience, that does not prohibit them from acquiring more specialized or specific knowledge, enabling them to excel. Most of the students improved their skillset either in theoretical knowledge, practical skills, or even in the emotional component of the course, i.e., dealing with treating a severely injured patient. It was decided that the program would be re-evaluated and extended to all Greek Medical Schools. CONCLUSION: The advantage of providing doctors with trauma training at the beginning of their careers is evident. For that reason, it was decided that the program would be re-evaluated and extended to all Greek Medical Schools. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9843698/ /pubmed/36660197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2022.1025920 Text en © 2022 Vassiliu, Mavrogenis, Theos, Koulouvaris, Massalis, Geranios, Bartsokas, Gerazounis, Tepetes, Kamparoudis, Stergiopoulos, Stavropoulos and Androulakis. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Surgery Vassiliu, Panteleimon Mavrogenis, Andreas Theos, Christos Koulouvaris, Panagiotis Massalis, Ioannis Geranios, Angelos Bartsokas, Christos Gerazounis, Michael Tepetes, Konstantinos Kamparoudis, Apostolos Stergiopoulos, Spyros Stavropoulos, Michael Androulakis, John Advanced trauma life support course for medical students. A new era? |
title | Advanced trauma life support course for medical students. A new era? |
title_full | Advanced trauma life support course for medical students. A new era? |
title_fullStr | Advanced trauma life support course for medical students. A new era? |
title_full_unstemmed | Advanced trauma life support course for medical students. A new era? |
title_short | Advanced trauma life support course for medical students. A new era? |
title_sort | advanced trauma life support course for medical students. a new era? |
topic | Surgery |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9843698/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36660197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fsurg.2022.1025920 |
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