Perception of Undergraduate Medical Students about Hands on Basic Suturing Skills Workshop: A Drive towards Competency Based Medical Education

Abstract

Introduction: Medical faculties need to change present teaching learning practices and use innovative methods so as to impart clinical and procedural skills to the students. To address this issue, we decided to conduct hands on workshop about basic suturing skills for undergraduate medical students.

Aims and objectives: To evaluate perception of undergraduate medical students about hands on workshop on basic suturing skills

Materials and methods: Present study is a Quasi-experimental study conducted at Rural Medical College, Loni BK. As a part of the study, hands on workshop about basic suturing techniques was conducted.

Results: Structured feedback questionnaire containing 10 items with Likert scale was submitted by 113 participants out of 150. More than 97% participants opined that basic procedural skills like suturing are essential for health professional.

Discussion: Medical education being imparted today is mostly knowledge driven with lesser opportunities for building essential procedural skills. Various procedural skills which are supposed to be performed by a graduate are intravenous cannulation, intramuscular injections, suturing, intercostal drainage insertion, intravenous infusion etc.

Conclusion: Medical education needs major reforms and innovative methods to impart procedural skills to the medical students