In vivo Simulation-Based Learning for Undergraduate Medical Students: Teaching and Assessment.

An increasing emphasis on simulation has become evident in the last three decades following fundamental shifts in the medical profession. Simulation-based learning (SBL) is a wide term that encompasses several means for imitating a skill, attitude, or procedure to train personnel in a safe and adaptive environment. A classic example has been the use of live animal tissue, named in vivo SBL.

Suturing Skills for Medical Students: A Systematic Review.

Aim: This systematic review aimed to identify all published evidence on teaching suturing skills for medical students. We aimed to outline significant positive teaching outcomes and devise a comprehensive framework for the optimal teaching of suturing skills for medical students.

Materials And Methods: We searched MEDLINE (via Ovid), EMBASE and SCOPUS databases until July 2019 with no language restriction using predefined 'Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome (PICO)' criteria.

Team performance training for medical students: Low vs high fidelity simulation.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate a simulation-based team performance course for medical students and compare its low- and high-fidelity components.

Study Design: This is a prospective crossover observational study. Groups participated in one low- and one high-fidelity session twice.

Introducing In Vivo Dissection Modules for Undergraduate Level Trainees: What Is the Actual Benefit and How Could We Make It More Efficient?

Essential Skills in the Management of Surgical Cases (ESMSC) is an international wet lab simulation course aimed at undergraduate students. It combines basic science workshops, case-based lectures and ex vivo skills modules, as well as in vivo dissections using a swine model. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of high-fidelity In Vivo Simulation-Based Learning for undergraduate level trainees.

A lateral tarsorrhaphy with forehead hitch to pre-empt and treat burns ectropion with a contextual review of burns ectropion management.

Introduction: Facial burns around the eyes and eyelid ectropion can lead to corneal exposure, irritation, dryness, epiphora, infection or visual loss. We undertook a review of the published articles describing management of eyelid burns as well as methods to treat or prevent ectropion. We describe early experience of a surgical technique that we have found to mitigate ectropion in facial burns with peri-ocular involvement.

Developing an International Combined Applied Surgical Science and Wet Lab Simulation Course as an Undergraduate Teaching Model.

Background: Essential Skills in the Management of Surgical Cases (ESMSC) is an international, animal model-based course. It combines interactive lectures with basic ex vivo stations and more advanced wet lab modules, that is, in vivo dissections and Heart Transplant Surgery on a swine model.

Materials And Methods: Forty-nine medical students (male, N = 27, female N = 22, and mean age = 23.

The Introduction of Standard Operating Procedures to Improve Burn Care in the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom (UK) burn units face substantial new obstacles in delivering high quality care because of the advent of full-shift working patterns, cross-specialty cover arrangements, and increased trainee turnover. Junior trainees rely heavily on senior colleagues, who may not be readily accessible. The authors therefore proposed the introduction of standard operating procedures (SOPs), detailed written instructions used to achieve uniformity in performance and to improve outcomes.

Blood loss and transfusion rates in DIEP flap breast reconstruction. Introducing a new predictor.

Background: The popularity of the DIEP flap has increased over the last decade. However, there is little information regarding the transfusion rates of this complex procedure. The current study reports the transfusion rates in patients who underwent DIEP flap reconstruction in our unit with an attempt to correlate significant blood loss with potential predictors such as the abdominal flap weight.

Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the nipple: a diagnosis of suspicion.

There has been only one documented case in the English literature with the diagnosis of primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) of the nipple; we present a further case of a primary SCC of the nipple, thus raising awareness to the skin or breast specialist of this possible presentation for SCC. We present the case of a 34 year old lady who presented to our plastic surgery unit with an erythematous, scaly lesion on her right Nipple Areola Complex (NAC). The lesion was histologically confirmed on biopsy to be an SCC and subsequently formally excised.