naa a22 4500 51074124X CHVBK 20180411083029.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11845-013-0956-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11845-013-0956-4 Basic surgical training in Ireland: the impact of operative experience, training program allocation and mentorship on trainee satisfaction [Elektronische Daten] [K. O'Sullivan, J. Byrne, T. Walsh] Background: Application to the Irishbasic surgical training (BST) program in Ireland has decreased progressively over the past 5years. We hypothesised that this decline was secondary to dissatisfaction with training correlated with reduced operative experience and lack of mentorship among BSTs. Methods: An anonymous 15 question electronic survey was circulated to all BSTs appraising their impression of the operative experience available to them, their mentorship and their opinions of critical aspects of training. Results: Fifty trainees responded to the survey. At the commencement of training 98% (n=43) intended to stay in surgery, decreasing to 79% (n=34) during the BST. Trainees who felt they had a mentor were three times more likely to be content in surgical training (OR 3.11; 95% CI 0.94-10.25, P=0.06). Trainees satisfied with their allocated rotation were more likely to be content in surgical training (OR 4.5; 95% CI 1.03-19.6, P=0.045). Individual trainee comments revealed dissatisfaction with operative exposure. Conclusion: Mentorship and satisfaction with allocated training rotation had a positive impact on trainee satisfaction and correlated with contentedness in surgical training. Operative experience is the main element that trainees report as lacking. This highlights the need for reform of the training system to improve current levels of mentorship and increase operative exposure to enhance its attractiveness to the best quality medical graduates. Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland, 2013 Basic surgical training nationallicence Program allocation nationallicence Attrition nationallicence Operative experience nationallicence Mentorship nationallicence O'Sullivan K. RCSI Department of Surgery, Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland aut Byrne J. RCSI Department of Surgery, Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland aut Walsh T. RCSI Department of Surgery, Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland aut Irish Journal of Medical Science Springer London 182/4(2013-12-01), 687-692 0021-1265 182:4<687 2013 182 11845 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-013-0956-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-013-0956-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- O'Sullivan K. RCSI Department of Surgery, Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Byrne J. RCSI Department of Surgery, Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Walsh T. RCSI Department of Surgery, Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, Dublin 15, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Irish Journal of Medical Science Springer London 182/4(2013-12-01), 687-692 0021-1265 182:4<687 2013 182 11845 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer