Current Trends and Future Perspectives Regarding Elective Rotations

Current Trends and Future Perspectives Regarding Elective Rotations Abroad Within Italian Surgical Residency Training: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?

Surgical resident elective rotation abroad give different opportunity such experience a different teaching and training, acquire more and new operative experience, experience living and working in a different cultural environment. Furthermore, the growing process of globalization that involves the nations themselves in different sectors, should also lead to a homogeneity of training on a global level, in order to be able to guarantee adequate assistance to different types of patients at the same time, and the possibility for doctors themselves of working abroad. the objective of the study is to provide the first overview of what is the current Italian scenario concerning abroad elective rotations during surgical training

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Surgery
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Survey

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 116

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

resident

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• working as short-term supernumerary registrars in a foreign surgical department during the academic year 2017-2018

Exclusion Criteria:

• Surgeons/residents who have not been abroad for training

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Cohort
• Time Perspectives: Other

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Satisfaction grade of actual elective rotation abroad in Italy	A five point Likert-type scale	1 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Gender	Ratio male/gender	1 year
Age at time of elective training	Age	1 year
Year of residency at the time of elective training	Multiple choice answers accounting 1 to 6	1 year
Institution visited	Multiple choice accounting 5 option such as university hospital, tertiary care hospital, referral center	1 year
Global surgical exposure	A five point Likert-type scale	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Roma La Sapienza

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): January 1, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 31, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): January 30, 2019

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 30, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 25, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): November 29, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 4, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 2, 2019
• Last Verified: December 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: Ita-SURG_S_2019

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No
• IPD Plan Description: no one

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No