I would like a systematic review based on PRISMA guidelines (http://www.prisma-statement.org/documents/PRISMA%202009%20checklist.pdf)
Background
Surgical training has considerably changed over the last few years, as a result of rapid technological innovations, more stringent ethical standards and patient awareness, theatre time cost, in combination with the working hour restrictions imposed by the European Working Time Directive. A significant amount of learning and skills training occurs outside the operating theatre, in the form of simulated training. In breast surgery, simulation-based training was challenging due to the unavailability of suitable surgical simulators.
Aims & Objectives
To systematically review the literature on simulation-based training in reconstructive surgery and to carry out qualitative research in order to gain insights into the training needs of breast trainees.
Methods
We will perform a systematic review of all available published manuscripts on PubMed and we will report important findings. This will be for breast surgical trainees.
Key References
1. Leff DR et al., Validation of an oncoplastic breast simulator for assessment of technical skills in wide local excision. Br J Surg. 2016 Feb;103(3):207-17. (this is the most important and we will structure our essay to this simulator)
2. Cook, D. A. et al. (2018) The value proposition of simulation-based education, Surgery (United States). Elsevier Inc., 163(4), pp. 944–949. doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2017.11.008.
3. Badash, I. et al. (2016) Innovations in surgery simulation: a review of past, current and future techniques, Annals of Translational Medicine, 4(23), pp. 453–453. doi: 10.21037/atm.2016.12.24.
4. Bashankaev, B., Baido, S. and Wexner, S. D. (2011) Review of available methods of simulation training to facilitate surgical education, Surgical Endoscopy, 25(1), pp. 28–35. doi: 10.1007/s00464-010-1123-x.
5. Zucca-Matthes G et al., Mastotrainer new version: realistic simulator for training in breast surgery., Breast. 2017 Feb;31:82-84. doi: 10.1016/j.breast.2016.08.009.
6. Lim GH et al., Virtual breast oncoplastic surgery simulator (VBOSS): A novel training tool in breast surgery. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2018 Nov;44(11):1750-1753. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2018.07.062.
As our source we will use only pubmed ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov )
