Influence of medical didactic training on the self-efficacy and motivation of clinical teachers.

Objectives: Due to increasing workload and rising expectations for both undergraduate and speciality training in medicine, teaching in a clinical environment can be challenging. The "Train the Trainer" course, developed by CAL (Chirurgische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Lehre, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (DGCH)), aims to assist clinical teachers in their task. This study investigates the effect the course has on participants' self-efficacy and teaching motivation.

Acute Abdominal Pain as a Result of an Isolated Left Ovarian Vein Thrombosis.

Ovarian vein thrombosis (OVT) is a rare thromboembolic condition. It involves the right ovarian vein in 70-80% of cases. The risk factors for the development of OVT are pregnancy or puerperium, hormone therapy with estrogen, recent surgery or hospitalization, malignancy, pelvic inflammatory diseases, thrombophilia and idiopathic OVT.

Dynamic Loading-A New Marker for Abdominal Aneurysm Growth?

The growing possibilities of non-invasive heart rate and blood pressure measurement with mobile devices allow vital data to be continuously collected and used to assess patients' health status. When it comes to the risk assessment of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), the continuous tracking of blood pressure and heart rate could enable a more patient-specific approach. The use of a load function and an energy function, with continuous blood pressure, heart rate, and aneurysm stiffness as input parameters, can quantify dynamic load on AAA.

[Care of vascular surgery patients during COVID-19: a Germany-wide survey].

Background: COVID-19 resulted in postponement and cancellation of elective operations in all surgical disciplines worldwide, especially in the first weeks of the pandemic. The specific situation in vascular surgery clinics in Germany during this period has not yet been described.

Objective: The purpose of the survey was to record the provision of vascular surgery services in the period from March 2020 to December 2020 as well as logistical and infrastructural changes that resulted from the pandemic situation.

Manikins versus simulated patients in emergency medicine training: a comparative analysis.

Purpose: Every physician must be able to sufficiently master medical emergencies, especially in medical areas where emergencies occur frequently such as in the emergency room or emergency surgery. This contrasts with the observation that medical students and young residents often feel insufficiently prepared to handle medical emergencies. It is therefore necessary to train them in the treatment of emergency patients.

[Monitoring Radiation Exposure During Surgery with Real Time Measurements: Opportunities and Limitations].

Background: In Germany, staff exposed to radiation is monitored with official individual dosimeters. Commercially available real-time dosimeters (RTD) can be used as radiation protection dosimeters. They are worn over the apron and display the radiation dose being measured at the desired location at intervals of one second.

[National Learning Objectives Catalogue in Surgery - General Part Defining Competences of Medical School Graduates in Surgery].

Competency-based medical education is needed in order to meet the requirements of medical care currently and in the future. The basis of this are activity-based learning objectives that are merged in competency-based catalogues. A basis for a core curriculum of undergraduate medical training is the National Catalogue of Learning Objectives for Undergraduate Medical Education (NKLM).

[Position Paper of the Surgical Working Group for Teaching of the German Society of Surgery Regarding the "Master Plan 2020"].

The "Masterplan Medizinstudium 2020" from the German Federal Government should not be underestimated as only one among many announcement. Thus, the Surgical Working Group on Medical Education (CAL) of the German Association of Surgeons (DGCH) comments on the intended measures of the "Masterplan Medizinstudium 2020" and discusses the challenges, consequences and duties arising from the "Masterplan Medizinstudium 2020" for the representatives of the surgical societies and those engaged in surgical undergraduate training.

[Train-the-Trainer: Professionalisation of Didactics in Daily Clinical Routine - the Personal Perception of Clinical Teaching Staff with Respect to Didactic Competence and the Framework Conditions of Teaching].

Background: Teaching training programs contribute to improving the quality of medical education. In a course of the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) concept of the Surgical Working Group for Teaching, teachers (TN) from different medical professions and career levels were taught together.

Aim Of The Work: Assessments of teaching activities in everyday clinical practice of residents (AÄ), senior staff (OÄ) and nurses (KP), their perception of teaching obstacles and requirements to improve teaching.

Do they teach what they need to? An analysis of the impact of curriculum mapping on the learning objectives taught in a lecture series in surgery.

Curriculum mapping shows concordances and differences between the intended and the taught curriculum. To our knowledge, no previous studies describe the effects that this mapping has on the curriculum. The aim of the present study is to map the content of a lecture series in surgery to the National Catalogue of Learning Objectives in Surgery and analyze the effects this mapping has on the content of the following lecture series.

[The Medical Examination - Between Desire and Reality - Analysis of Consensus Between the Second Part of the Medical Licensing Exam (IMPP) and the National Catalogue of Expertise-based Learning Goals in Surgery (NKLC)].

The working party of the German Society for Surgery (DGCH) on undergraduate surgical education has developed a national expertise-based catalogue of learning goals in surgery (NKLC). This study analyses the extent to which the questions of the German second medical licensing examination compiled by the IMPP are congruent with the NKLC and which thematic focus is emphasised. Firstly, a guideline and evaluation sheet were developed in order to achieve documentation of the individual examination questions of the second licensing examination with respect to the learning goals of the NKLC.

The effect of written standardized feedback on the structure and quality of surgical lectures: A prospective cohort study.

Background: Lectures remain an important teaching method to present and structure knowledge to many students concurrently. Adequate measures are necessary to maintain the quality of the lectures. The aim of this study was to determine the impact on the lecture quality using written structured feedback and to compare the ratings of surgical lectures between students and surgical peers.

Elevated fluid shear stress enhances postocclusive collateral artery growth and gene expression in the pig hind limb.

Objective: The role of fluid shear stress (FSS) in collateral vessel growth remains disputed and prospective in vivo experiments to test its morphogenic power are rare. Therefore, we studied the influence of FSS on arteriogenesis in a new model with extremely high levels of collateral flow and FSS in pig and rabbit hind limbs.

Methods And Results: A side-to-side anastomosis was created between the distal stump of one of the bilaterally occluded femoral arteries with the accompanying vein.