Trauma leagues: an alternative way to teach trauma surgery to medical students

Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões

Romeo Lages Simões¹  Fernando Antônio Martins Bermudes¹  Hudson Silva Andrade¹  Filipe Machado Barcelos¹  Breno Pinheiro Rossoni¹  Gustavo Peixoto Soares Miguel¹  Carlos Alberto De Castro Fagundes¹  Gustavo Pereira Fraga¹ 

关键词: Trauma;    Students;    Medical;    Teaching;    General Surgery;    Trauma;    Estudantes de Medicina;    Ensino;    Cirurgia Geral;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0100-699120140040013

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE: to compare the knowledge of medical students between those who are members of the Trauma League (TL) and those from a non-Trauma League (NTL) group of the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES).METHODS: cross-sectional, analytical and descriptive study. Two knowledge tests, with 30 questions each, were applied to students from 3rd to 12th period, randomly selecting five students per period, with 50 students in the TL group and 50 in NTL. The questionnaire topics were: pre-hospital care, the mnemonic ABCDE trauma sequence, advanced trauma and imaging. The students' performances were evaluated by graduation-period group: basic (3rd-5th period), intermediary/clinical (6th-8th) and internship (9th-12th).RESULTS: in the first test the average accuracy of the TL group was 20.64 ± 3.17, while for the NTL group, it was 14.76 ± 5.28 (p<0.005). In the second test the average accuracy for the TL group was 21.52 ± 3.64, while for the NTL group, the average was 15.36 ± 29.5 (p<0.005). When divided into graduation periods, it was observed that the TL group showed a higher average across all three groups (p<0.05) in both tests.CONCLUSION: the students who attended the academic league activities have greater knowledge of the issues that are considered relevant to patient trauma care. In all periods of undergraduate academic training, the TL group had greater knowledge of the subject than the NTL group.

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