Otoskills training during covid-19 pandemic: a before-after study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the surgical training of residents. There is a real concern that trainees will not be able to meet their training requirements. Low-fidelity surgical simulation appears to be an alternative for surgical training. The educational benefits of repeating ossiculoplasty simulations under a microscope have never been evaluated. With this study we aimed to evaluate the differences in performance scores and on a global rating scale before and after training on an ossiculoplasty simulator.

Methods

In this quasi-experimental, prospective, single-centre, before-after study with blinded rater evaluation, residents performed five microscopic ossiculoplasty tasks with a difficulty gradient (sliding beads onto rods, the insertion of a

SUBMITTER: Fieux M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8129703 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature