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The General Surgery Residents Perception for the Training Program at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Osman A Hamour, Zain Alshareef and Ahmed A Abdalla

Background: A good number of research work indicates that trainees as beneficiaries are usually the most equipped resources to evaluate the extent to which their learning and training experience is useful, informative, satisfactory, beneficial, and worthwhile. Although the trainees' assessment on such matters is not objective enough for the course effectiveness and instructional techniques, yet such a feedback is a reliable and legitimate indicator of the students' satisfaction. The aims of this study are to retrieve, understand, and critically examine the education program at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center Jeddah, (KFSHRC-J) through the eyes of the end-users and the beneficiaries, the surgical residents.

Methods: This is an exploratory descriptive study, conducted at the KFSHRC-Jeddah, targeting the surgical resident's physicians who have recently finished their training. Self-Administered Questionnaire was used for data collection. Data processed using SPSS software program version 20.

Results: This is an exploratory descriptive study included 24 participants; 10 (41.7%) males and 14 (58.3%) females. Some residents believed that the ward rounds are not properly utilized for educational purposes, and only run as business rounds. All participants expressed the paramount need for increasing the hands-on experience of the residents each at his/her level and they recommended that the program should continue, but some changes has to be introduced and implemented, 3.6% of them suggest freezing of the program.

Conclusion: In conclusion we believe that the data collected shows that residents at this training program of the KFSHRC-J are generally satisfied with the surgical training they receive. Most of them rated the quality and volume of their surgical training as adequate and satisfactory and will improve if their suggestion shall be taken seriously studied and implemented.