CORR® Curriculum — Orthopaedic Education: Generational Opportunities for Teaching in the Operating Room

摘要

A gap of almost 50 years in age may exist between 20-somethings in their final years of medical school and tenured clinical surgeons nearing retirement [ ]. The educational experience in residency and medical school evolves with each passing generation. In the past, an instructor’s approach to teaching may have relied almost exclusively on printed material, lectures, and multiple-choice examinations [ ]. But the operating room is predicated on team interaction. And in recent years, the mode in which medical knowledge is delivered and assessed has changed dramatically with a heavy reliance on smartphones [ ], simulations, group-based learning, and interactive videos [ ].