CHALLENGES IN UNDERGRADUATE SURGICAL EDUCATION- My 100th VIDEO · Dear Viewers, · Greetings from “Surgical Educator” · This is my 100th video · In this video, I have talked about some of the challenges we are facing in undergraduate surgical education · In Surgical Education there are three components- patients, teachers and students · I have talked about 4 challenges related to patients- safety of patients, uncooperative patients, dearth of patients and language barrier · I have talked about 4 challenges related to teachers- surgeons as educators, dearth of quality teachers, not updating and not working as a team · I have talked about 4 challenges related to students- different learning abilities, different cultural background, too many students and not willing to learn · You can watch all my videos in the following links: · surgicaleducator.blogspot.com youtube.com/c/surgicaleducator · Thank you for watching the video

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Recognise various challenges in
Patients
Teachers
Students
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OBJECTIVES

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PATIENTS
Endangering patients safety:
 Proper education to students
 Universal precautions
 Do no harm to patients
Uncooperative patients:
 Educate them the importance of their role
 Treat them with dignity and respect
 Empathy- understand their problems

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Dearth of patients:
 Simulated patients & High fidelity mannequins
 Post students to wards, SOPD, OT, Endoscopy Etc
 Institutions should have their own hospitals
Language barrier:
 Learn atleast medical terms in Malay

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Surgeons as educators:
 Surgeons concentrate mainly in technical expertise
 Train the trainers obtain degree in medical
education
 Clinical surgery problem oriented case based
Dearth of dedicated quality teachers:
 Search and appoint quality talents
 Half of the battle is won if you appoint dedicated
quality talents in your organization
 The biggest asset to any organization is it’s
employees

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Not updating knowledge & skills continuously:
 If not updating continuously soon you will be
outdated.
 Be a role model to your students by being a life long
learner.
Working individually Vs Team Work:
 Realise importance of team work and be a team
player. Mutual respect among team members.
 None of us are smarter than all of us put together.
 Even birds and ants are working together to
accomplish their common goal. Why not we?

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Different learning ability:
 Mentoring/ Pastoral care.
 CBME Competency Based Medical Education
Students can acquire various required competencies
at their own pace
 Individual feed back to students on their
competency and progress
Different cultural background:
 Treat all equally irrespective of their race, religion,
caste, creed and sex. Give all equal opportunity.
 A rising tide lifts all boats and like that a good
teacher should elevate all his/her students.

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Too many students:
 Ideally small group should be 6 to 8 students
 Maintain faculty: student ratio =1:8
 Web based E-learning Medical Learning Environment; Make
it interactive by using Ed puzzle.
 Blended learning Web based + Face to face teaching
Not willing to learn:
 Motivate. How to motivate is a million dollar question?
 Active learning students should realise why they are learning
and relevance of it to their future career. Teacher centered 
Student centered
 Teaching and learning happens only by appreciation and
encouragement and never by intimidation or humiliation.

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MIND MAP

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“ Good doctor means not only being good to your patients
and being a skilled clinician, it also means we have to be
good, selfless teachers who can effectively transfer these
wisdom and knowledge to the next generation”
“ If we equip our students with skills for life long learning,
we can accomplish our ultimate goal- to train competent,
knowledgeable, and compassionate medical graduates of
the future”