Key result
Simulation training in cardiac surgery directly improves operative performance and efficiency.
Simulation training is highlighted as a valuable tool to improve operative performance and efficiency in complex coronary surgery without jeopardizing patient safety.
Feature Editor's Introduction—“Learning on the job, particularly surgery, is relatively disorganized…unpredictable…time-consuming…costly…and more importantly, patient safety may be jeopardized.”1 So, can we protect patients while training competent cardiac surgeons? Is simulation the answer? It seems like the “Holy Grail” of surgical education; it can be standardized across the world and “gives permission to fail, to do so repeatedly and without consequence.”1At our center, we found that it directly improves operative performance and efficiency.
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Sergeant et al. (2020) conducted an editorial in Surgical education in cardiac surgery. Simulation training was evaluated on Operative performance and efficiency. Simulation training in cardiac surgery directly improves operative performance and efficiency.
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