2022 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 30-34
In recent years, the decreasing number and availability of surgeons as well as the availability of microsurgery has become a problem. This study aimed to investigate the ability and interest of medical students undergoing clinical clerkship to learn microsurgery techniques. The study included 47 undergraduate medical students and assessed the time and the quality of sutures performed on silicone tubes under a microscope. The study design included two groups. The first group performed the sutures without previous training and the second group had practiced skin sutures beforehand. The level of interest in orthopedics was surveyed before and after the training. The results showed no correlation between age, sex, or training time. There was no difference in time or scores between the trained and untrained groups. After the training, 74.5% of the students developed increased interest in orthopedics. These results suggested that it is possible for inexperienced medical students to start microsurgery training, which can lead to an interest in taking up microsurgery.
