Experience with "Select Crowd Review" in Peer Review for The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon: 1-Year Experience.

Objective: To evaluate the experience with a new peer review method, "Select Crowd Review" (SCR): anonymized PDFs of manuscripts are accessible to a reviewer crowd via an online platform. It has access for 10 days to enter anonymized comments directly into the manuscript. A SCR-Editor summarizes the annotations, giving a recommendation.

[Surgical Education of Medical Students in Times of COVID-19 - Necessary Adjustments are Chances for the Future].

Background: Education of medical students in surgery not only consists of knowledge about diseases and their treatment but also of practical skills like i.e. suturing.