Outcomes of the National Advanced Training Program for Laparoscopic Radical Gastrectomy: a Survey Based on Follow-up Questionnaire
Outcomes of the National Advanced Training Program for Laparoscopic Radical Gastrectomy: a Survey Based on Follow-up Questionnaire
This study aims to evaluate the outcomes of the advanced training program for laparoscopic radical gastrectomy (ATP-LRG). The research subjects are the trainees who participated in this training program.
Written informed consent is not required because of the observational and anonymous nature of this study. ATP-LRG is a national training program carried out by Fujian Medical University Union Hospital. Each training lasts about 1.5 days, which includes 1) detailed technique description; 2) prevention and solving of intraoperative complications; 3) live surgery performance; 4) theory and practice of clinical research; 5) comments on trainees' videos; and 6) questions, answers and discussions. In this study, 875 trainees who participated in ATP-LRG from January 2015 to October 2020 were interviewed using electronic questionnaires. Using a repeated-measures design to examine differences in outcomes before and after participating in the training. Questionnaire Star (Changsha Ranxing Information Technology Co., Ltd), a most widely used professional online questionnaire software platform in China, was used to design and create a link to the questionnaire. The questionnaire's link was sent to each trainee via WeChat (Tencent Holdings Limited), the most commonly used social networking software in China.
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