College Undergraduates in the Operating Room: an Educational Model for Early Surgical Education

Madison S McCarthy; Doreen L Wiggins

doi:10.1007/s40670-022-01577-y

College Undergraduates in the Operating Room: an Educational Model for Early Surgical Education

Med Sci Educ. 2022 Jun 10;32(4):765-767. doi: 10.1007/s40670-022-01577-y. eCollection 2022 Aug.

Authors

Madison S McCarthy¹, Doreen L Wiggins²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI USA.
² Department of Surgery, Brown University, Providence, RI USA.

Abstract

Undergraduate pre-medical education in the USA has not traditionally offered opportunities for hands-on surgical education to college-level students. The absence of exposure has been studied, but an educational model to remedy this has not been shared. This course was designed to share a replicable model for college surgical education.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40670-022-01577-y.

Keywords: College undergraduate; Medical education; Surgical education; Teaching model.