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Hands-on surgical simulation should be incorporated as a fundamental part of the cardiothoracic surgery curriculum to address reduced training opportunities.
Advocates for the formal integration of hands-on surgical simulation into cardiothoracic surgery training to mitigate reduced training opportunities caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID pandemic has had huge implications for training in cardiothoracic surgery. The reduction in training opportunities has led to concerns from trainees globally regarding the impact on their learning and their training progression. Surgical simulation is effective in the development of technical skills in cardiothoracic surgery with numerous examples of low and high-fidelity simulators. Despite this the incorporation of such methods into training curricula worldwide is seldom. Core fundamentals are required to successfully implement surgical simulation into training programmes, which includes; commitment from trainers, regular sessions and structured feedback. Few programmes have demonstrated the successful incorporation of surgical simulation and there is a growing acceptance of its place in the speciality. As we recover from this challenging period it may be the right opportunity to evolve how we train our current and future trainees by incorporating hands-on simulation as a fundamental part of the cardiothoracic curriculum.
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Hussein et al. (2021) conducted an editorial in Cardiothoracic surgery training. Hands-on surgical simulation was evaluated. Hands-on surgical simulation should be incorporated as a fundamental part of the cardiothoracic surgery curriculum to address reduced training opportunities.
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