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Senior vs. junior staff in supervised thyroid surgery: features and pedagogical challenges

2023; Georg Thieme Verlag; Volume: 89; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.24875/cirue.m20000324

2444-0507

Luis Alejandro Boccalatte, Carolina Roni, Pedro Picco, Marcelo Figari,

Medical and Biological Sciences

Objective: In the present work we propose to analyze what is the vision of the supervised surgeon who performs thyroid surgeryabout what and how it is learned in the operating room and what are the characteristics of this learning space.Possible differences regarding the postoperative morbidity of the patient when treated by a supervisor or a supervised person were analyzed.Method: Qualitative-quantitative observational study using a questionnaire without predefined options, for both supervisors and supervisees.A retrospective database was also analyzed considering hospital stay, operative times, acute and chronic complications according to operator (supervised or supervisor).Results: Professional expertise involves other complex actions that must be made visible to be taught.Both supervisors and supervisees recognized the operating room as a socializing context through supervised learning.There were no statistical differences in complications and/or hospital stay between expert surgeons and supervised surgeons in training.Conclusions: This work turns out to be a contribution to those who face the challenge of facilitating learning in the operating room.It is hoped that it will help inspire planned actions that prioritize and add quality to the inescapable educational task.