An analysis of the application of surgical illustrations in minimally invasive urology education
Jia Zhuo
Guo Jing
Peng Cheng
Tang Lu
Du Songliang
Huang Qingbo
Ma Xin
Zhang Xu
Liu Kan
Abstract：Objective:To evaluate the effectiveness of using surgical illustrations in teaching minimally invasive surgery for renal cancer with inferior vena cava(IVC)tumor thrombus.Methods:Selected 40 surgeons with less ex-perience trained in the Senior Department of Urology,the Third Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital from January 2023 to December 2023,they were randomly divided into the experimental group and the control group,with 20 cases in each group,for learning surgical strategies and techniques of renal cancer with IVC tumor thrombus.The experimental group was taught using surgical illustrations,while the control group used traditional anatomical atlases.The baseline data,post-teaching self-assessment,teacher evaluations,and objective test scores before and after teaching were compared between the two groups.Results:There were no significant differences in baseline character-istics between the two groups(P>0.05).After training,self-assessed understanding of the surgery,disease manage-ment approach,willingness to engage in active learning,comparison with previous learning and total personal evalua-tion score in the experimental group were better than those in the control group,the differences were statistically sig-nificant(all P<0.05).In teacher evaluations of student engagement,the learning enthusiasm,clinical diagnosis and treatment decision-making,treatment strategy and total evaluation score in the experimental group were all better than those in the control group also,with statistically significant differences(all P<0.05).The pre-teaching test scores showed no significant difference between two groups(P=0.856).However,the post-teaching scores improved in both groups(both P<0.001),with the experimental group outperforming the control group(P=0.007).Conclu-sion:Teaching with procedure-specific technical illustrations is more effective than using traditional anatomical atlas-es,and is suitable for application and promotion in urological surgical technique education.
Keywords：surgical illustrationseducationrenal cancer with venous tumor thrombusminimally invasive urology
Publication Date：2024-08-05
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：5( 224-228 )