Video-based Learning for Basic Surgical Skills

Video-based Learning for Basic Surgical Skills - a Randomized Trial

This is a prospective randomized study, intended to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching basic surgical techniques through video, comparing the results with those of traditional teaching

Inclusion Criteria:

• Students from the 1st to 3rd years of the Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine at the University of Porto,
• Able to participate in a course of basic surgical techniques (simple suturing, X-stitches, U-stitches and Donatti points)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Participants is to have had prior contact with techniques surgical and/or minor surgery,
• Participants had contact with techniques surgical and/or minor surgery in the period between recruitment and completion of the proposed learning