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Table 2 List of SAICT boot camp skills station and lecture

From: Boot camp approach to surgical residency preparation: feedback from a French university hospital

 

Operating room

Surgical hospitalization department

Emergency surgical advice

Lecture supervisor, teacher

Hygiene and infection

Lecture series

- Bacteriology

- Guidelines for sterilization, asepsis and good practice

- iatrogenic infections

Infectiology unit team member

Skills station

- Dry and wet scrubbing

- Gown and glove

- Moving around the table

- Prep and drape (plastic dummy)

- Dry and wet scrubbing

- Dry and wet scrubbing

 

Anesthesia management

Lecture series

- Anesthetic care in the operating room

- Communication between the surgeon and the anesthesiologist

- Team-based pain management

- Communication between the surgeon and the anesthesiologist

- Emergency management as a team

- Communication between the surgeon and the anesthesiologist

Anesthesiologist team member

Skills station

    

Handing over instruments and suture

Lecture series

- Basic knot tying and suture*

- Deep knot tying and suture*

- Different knot types

- Instrument handling

- Instrument name

- Clamp-cut-tie-cut techniques

  

- Surgical coordination team and teaching surgeon

- Member of the operating room nursing team

Skills station

- Deep, superficial suture and knot on artificial skin

  

- Surgical coordination team and teaching surgeon

Drain fixation device

Lecture series

- Principles of surgical drain fixation

- Principles of surgical drainage and main indications

- Drain management

 

- Surgical coordination team and teaching surgeon

Skills station

- Fixation of a tubular drain (redon type) on an artificial support

  

- Surgical coordination team and teaching surgeon

Medical law and good practice

Lecture series

- Medical law and responsibility

- Forensics rules for writing a hospitalization report and surgical report

- Informed consent

- Lawyer member of the Toulouse Bar Association

Skills station

   

Team work and communication

Lecture series

- Presentation of the composition of an operating room team: roles and relationships

- Duality of being a learner and practitioner

- Postoperative care with patient and family

- Effective handover during transition in care

- Recognizing and initiating early management for critically ill surgical patient

- Surgical coordination team

- Member of the operating room nursing team

Skills station

Helium stick

- Surgical coordination team