Current Trends and Future Perspectives Regarding Elective Rotations

University of Roma La Sapienza

Status: Completed

Conditions: Surgery

Treatments: Other: Survey

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04180917

Ita-SURG_S_2019

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Enrollment: 116 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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