A Mentorship-Based Surgery Clerkship: A Prospective Study Investigating Student Satisfaction

Interest in general surgery has steadily decreased among medical students due to negative perceptions of surgeons, a lack of meaningful clerkship involvement, and inadequate mentorship. We implemented a novel mentorship-based surgery clerkship (MBSC) in which each student was matched with a resident mentor with the goals of enhancing student learning experience, meaningfulness, and interest in surgery. We hypothesized that students participating in the MBSC would report increased confidence in surgical competencies, exposure to surgical faculty, and positive perception of surgery, with no detriment to clerkship grades.
Source: Journal of Surgical Research - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Education and Career Development Source Type: research