Because of screen time and lack of hands-on activities medical students don’t have the dexterity to learn their job

Because of screen time and lack of hands-on activities medical students don’t have the dexterity to learn their job

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A professor of surgery says students have spent so much time in front of screens and so little time using their hands that they have lost the dexterity for stitching or sewing up patients. Roger Kneebone, professor of surgical education at Imperial College, London, says young people have so little experience of craft skills that…

For surgical residents, learning comes easier when stress is removed

For surgical residents, learning comes easier when stress is removed

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University of Houston and Methodist Hospital researchers are reporting in Scientific Reports that the best way to train surgeons is to remove the stress of residency programs and make surgery a hobby. Under relaxed conditions outside a formal educational setting, 15 first-year medical students, who aspired one day to become surgeons, mastered microsurgical suturing and…