Increasing the attractiveness of surgical disciplines for students: Implications of a robot-assisted hands-on training course for medical education

CONCLUSION: Our results demonstrate great demand for implementing robotic training into medical education for an up-to-date curriculum. Although the decision process on career choice is widely multifactorial, stereotypes associated with surgical disciplines should be eliminated. This could have a particularly positive effect on the recruitment of female medical students since women are clearly underrepresented in surgical disciplines although currently and with increasing proportions, more female students are enrolled in medical schools then male.PMID:35937610 | PMC:PMC9349358 | DOI:10.3389/fsurg.2022.953565

Source: Cancer Control - August 8, 2022 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Jonas Ekrutt Sami-Ramzi Leyh-Bannurah Sophie Knipper Frederik Schramm Burkhard Beyer Tobias Maurer Markus Graefen Lars Bud äus Source Type: research