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Title: Exploring the educational value of the general surgical outpatient clinic: a systematic review.
Austin Authors: Rostolis, Renee;Temperley, Hugo C;Larkins, Kirsten;Burgess, Adele N ;Proud, David ;Mohan, Helen
Affiliation: Surgery
St John of God Midland, Perth, WA Australia.
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC Australia.;Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, VIC Australia.
Issue Date: 2023
Date: 2023
Publication information: Global Surgical Education: Journal of the Association for Surgical Education 2023; 2(1)
Abstract: Optimising opportunities for exposure and learning in the clinical environment is a priority for surgical education. The surgical outpatient clinic provides a setting for engaging with the patient journey while gaining essential surgical knowledge and skills. This systematic review seeks to determine the role of the outpatient clinic in current surgical education for multiple levels of learners and identify strategies to improve educational utility. A systematic search strategy was conducted across Medline (OVID), Embase, PubMed, and Web of Science databases according to PRISMA guidelines. A comprehensive grey literature search for evaluation of international postgraduate surgical curricula was also performed. Publications were included if they discussed or utilised the general surgical outpatient clinic in an educational context. Nine publications were included in this review. Educational interventions in a surgical outpatient clinic setting were discussed in three publications and two publications presented observational data relating to educational opportunities in the surgical outpatient clinic. Four postgraduate surgical curricula outlined the current approaches to surgical education in the outpatient clinic setting. Assessment of included studies by Kirkpatrick level of evidence highlighted that included studies did not investigate high-order educational outcomes. Thematic analysis of curricula was utilised to build a common set of learning outcomes. Educational interventions were found to improve learning outcomes, particularly those that facilitated active student participation. Postgraduate surgical curricula utilise the surgical outpatient clinic and recognise its importance in surgical training through the implementation of outpatient-based learning objectives which serve as fundamental components of training. Common learning objectives can be used to direct further research into the efficacy of this educational context. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s44186-023-00106-8.
URI: https://ahro.austin.org.au/austinjspui/handle/1/34441
DOI: 10.1007/s44186-023-00106-8
ORCID: 0000-0001-9151-3431
Journal: Global Surgical Education: Journal of the Association for Surgical Education
Start page: 28
PubMed URL: 38013869
ISSN: 2731-4588
Type: Journal Article
Subjects: Clinical teaching
Outpatient surgical clinic
Surgical education
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