“See one, do one, teach one”: Balancing patient care and surgical training in an emergency trauma department

The adage “see one, do one, teach one” refers to learning skills through a three-tiered approach as illustrated in Figure 1. It reflects a traditional teaching style whereby once a skill has been observed, the student/trainee is expected to perform the procedure followed by the ability to teach it. The model developed by Halsted [1] […]