2024 Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 35-41
Objective: Child-rearing physicians (ikudoku) often have difficulties in continuing surgical training because of career interruptions and time constraints. A two-month seminar was held to provide ikudoku with opportunities to learn about laparoscopic surgery, career development, and peer support, and to consider effective types of surgical training for ikudoku.
Method: The seminar was attended by 12 participants, including the lead author. For ligating practice in a dry box, the participants were given assignments to share their ligation videos and suggest improvements with each other. Lectures on career development for female physicians were also given, and participants were asked to present their own future visions. To evaluate the effectiveness of the seminar, we compared ligation times at the beginning and end of the seminar and conducted a questionnaire survey.
Results: The median ligation time significantly decreased from 66.5 to 29.5 seconds (p = 0.003). After attending the seminar, the participants spent more time practicing per day and practiced more frequently, and their training content became more diverse, including left-hand ligation, part-by-part practice, and time trials, compared with before the seminar. According to the questionnaire, the main reason for the reduction in ligation times was sustained motivation levels, which resulted in more practice time and changes in practice content.
Conclusions: These findings suggest that ikudoku can improve their ligation skills by maintaining their motivation, spending more time on self-improvement and training, and devising more diverse practice content. Providing such opportunities to ikudoku could be useful for surgical training.
