Surgical training and working time restriction

European Working Time Directive: implications for surgical training.

The forthcoming implementation of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) for non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) poses a number of challenges in the areas of patient care, training, service provision and quality of life for workers. Surgery, as a craft-based speciality, will face a greater impact on training of future surgeons as operating time could be lost to service provision. The EW...

The European working time directive has a negative impact on surgical training in the UK.

BOTA and ASiT would like to respond to the recently published letter from Rusius et al. One-year on from the full implementation of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) and we are yet to see any significant improvement in the training received by junior surgeons. The combined BOTA/ASiT survey of over 1600 trainees last autumn, after working hours were technically limited to an average 48 ...

European Working Time Directive implementation and cardiothoracic training: larger centers may optimise training.

I read with interest the article by Lim and coworkers, detailing the effect of implementation of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) on operative training at Papworth Hospital [1]. The findings of this study are impressive, but may not reflect the wider experience of UK trainees. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has performed nationwide surveys of the attitudes of UK and Irish ...

The European working time directive for doctors in training.

Providing Effective Real-Time Feedback in Simulation-Based Surgical Training

Virtual reality simulation is becoming popular as a training platform in surgical education. However, one important aspect of simulation-based surgical training that has not received much attention is the provision of automated real-time performance feedback to support the learning process. Performance feedback is actionable advice that improves novice behaviour. In simulation, automated feedba...