Surgery
Conditions
Brief summary
Surgical resident elective rotation abroad give different opportunity such experience a different teaching and training, acquire more and new operative experience, experience living and working in a different cultural environment. Furthermore, the growing process of globalization that involves the nations themselves in different sectors, should also lead to a homogeneity of training on a global level, in order to be able to guarantee adequate assistance to different types of patients at the same time, and the possibility for doctors themselves of working abroad. the objective of the study is to provide the first overview of what is the current Italian scenario concerning abroad elective rotations during surgical training
Interventions
OTHERSurvey
survey
Sponsors
University of Roma La Sapienza
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
OTHER
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* working as short-term supernumerary registrars in a foreign surgical department during the academic year 2017-2018
Exclusion criteria
* Surgeons/residents who have not been abroad for training
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Satisfaction grade of actual elective rotation abroad in Italy | 1 years | A five point Likert-type scale |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | 1 year | Ratio male/gender |
| Age at time of elective training | 1 year | Age |
| Year of residency at the time of elective training | 1 year | Multiple choice answers accounting 1 to 6 |
| Institution visited | 1 year | Multiple choice accounting 5 option such as university hospital, tertiary care hospital, referral center |
| Global surgical exposure | 1 year | A five point Likert-type scale |
Outcome results
None listed