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Table 3 Surgery rotation experience for students participating in surgical skills training

From: Addressing gaps in surgical skills training by means of low-cost simulation at Muhimbili University in Tanzania

Frequency in number of times

Number of students reporting having engaged in specified activity during their surgery rotation

 

Observed a surgery in operating room

Scrubbed & gowned for a surgical case

Opportunity to suture

Practise surgical knot-tying

0

0/37

0/37

8/37

17/37

1 to 5

15/37

26/37

27/37

19/37

6 to 10

16/37

10/37

1/37

1/37

>10

6/37

1/37

1/37

0/37