ArticleMedical education online2015
Peer-assisted teaching of basic surgical skills.
Article in Medical education online, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Near-peer teaching of laparoscopic skills among medical students: a randomised feasibility study.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- Juxtaposing pedagogical paradigms: the efficacy of peer-assisted learning (PAL) versus faculty-assisted learning (FAL) in the refinement of surgical proficiency.BMC medical education · 2025Trial
- Effectivity of near-peer teaching in training of basic surgical skills - a randomized controlled trial.BMC medical education · 2021Trial
- Video-Based Guided Simulation without Peer or Expert Feedback is Not Enough: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Simulation-Based Training for Medical Students.World journal of surgery · 2021Trial
- Medical students can teach communication skills - a mixed methods study of cross-year peer tutoring.BMC medical education · 2017Trial
- Perceptions and Barriers to Surgical Training of Undergraduates: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Cureus · 2025Article
- Importance of future motivation for skill acquisition among medical students undergoing endoscopic forceps training.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Learning needs of residents in oral and maxillofacial surgery outpatient clinics: a dual-source survey study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Enhancing Operating Room Skills and Confidence Among Third-Year Medical Students: A Quality Improvement Initiative.Cureus · 2025Article
- Review
- Survey Study of Clerkship Curriculum on Learner's Choice to Pursue Surgery: Positive Impact of Extracurricular Opportunities.Journal of surgical education · 2023Article
- Undergraduate Skills Training in Pandemic Times: Where Is the Future of Medical Education?European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- Impact of an in-person small group surgical skills course for preclinical medical students in an era of increased e-learning.Surgery open science · 2022Article
- Introducing advanced surgical tasks simulation for surgical training.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Suture Education with Soft-Embalmed Cadavers: A Cut Above the Rest.Kansas journal of medicine · 2022Article
- An Educational Network for Surgical Education Supported by Gamification Elements: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
- Identifying essential procedural skills in Canadian undergraduate medical education.Canadian medical education journal · 2020Article
- Can We Use Peer-Assisted Learning to Teach Basic Surgical Skills?The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS · 2020Article
- Students teaching students: A survey of a medical student led surgical skills workshop - A prospective cohort study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundBasic surgical skills training is rarely emphasised in undergraduate medical curricula. However, the provision of skills tutorials requires significant commitment from time-constrained surgical faculty. PURPOSE: We aimed to determine how a peer-assisted suturing workshop could enhance surgical skills competency among medical students and enthuse them towards a career in surgery.
methodsSenior student tutors delivered two suturing workshops to second- and third- year medical students. Suturing performance was assessed before and after teaching in a 10-min suturing exercise (variables measured included number of sutures completed, suture tension, and inter-suture distance). Following the workshop, students completed a questionnaire assessing the effect of the workshop on their suturing technique and their intention to pursue a surgical career.
resultsThirty-five students attended. Eighty-one percent believed their medical school course provided insufficient basic surgical skills training. The mean number of sutures completed post-teaching increased significantly (p < 0.001), and the standard deviation of mean inter-suture distance halved from ± 4.7 mm pre-teaching, to ± 2.6 mm post-teaching. All students found the teaching environment to be relaxed, and all felt the workshop helped to improve their suturing technique and confidence; 87% found the peer-taught workshop had increased their desire to undertake a career in surgery. DISCUSSION: Peer-assisted learning suturing workshops can enhance medical students' competence with surgical skills and inspire them towards a career in surgery. With very little staff faculty contribution, it is a cheap and sustainable way to ensure ongoing undergraduate surgical skills exposure.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.