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College Undergraduates in the Operating Room: an Educational Model for Early Surgical Education

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Undergraduate pre-medical education in the USA has not traditionally offered opportunities for hands-on surgical education to college-level students. The absence of exposure has been studied, but an educational model to remedy this has not been shared. This course was designed to share a replicable model for college surgical education.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine and Drs. Katie E Hicks, Maria Doubova, Remington M Winter, Christine Seabrook, and Tim Brandys for allowing the authors to adapt the “Surgical Exploration and Discovery Program: Early Exposure to Surgical Subspecialties and Its Influence on Student Perceptions of A Surgical Career” survey.

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  1. Department of Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Madison S. McCarthy

  2. Department of Surgery, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Doreen L. Wiggins

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McCarthy, M.S., Wiggins, D.L. College Undergraduates in the Operating Room: an Educational Model for Early Surgical Education. Med.Sci.Educ. 32, 765–767 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-022-01577-y

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