The relationship between medical students' manual dexterity and their post-graduate clinical specialty choices.

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26460607
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Medical sociology
• Research Institution: International University of Health and Welfare (2016-2017); Fukushima Medical University (2014-2015)
• Principal Investigator: KOBAYASHI GEN 国際医療福祉大学, 医学部, 講師 (20423791)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): ISHIKAWA Kazunobu 国際医療福祉大学, 医学部, 教授 (80222959) ; SUGAWARA Akiko 福島県立医科大学, 医学部, 助教 (40566808) ; MOROI Yoko 福島県立医科大学, 医学部, 助手 (20443872) ; MATSUDA Nozomu 福島県立医科大学, 医学部, 助教 (90726457) ; MOTOYA Ryo 北海道医療大学, 心理科学部, 准教授 (20584189) ; SAITO Takuro 福島県立医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (20305361)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 器用さ / シミュレーション学習 / 医学生 / 専門診療科選択 / 腹腔鏡下手術

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Laparoscopic simlators enable novice medical students to learn basic surgical skills. We have conducted a laparoscopic surgical simulation training with three surgical departments, and have investigated the relationship between medical students’ manual dexterity and their post-graduate clinical specialty choices.
The number of students who self-assessed as clumsy was significantly higher among those preferring “internal fields” than those preferring “surgical fields” (p<0.05). However, there were few differences in objective simulator performances between them. Furthermore, both undergraduate objective simulator performances and self-assessment of manual dexterity showed no significant differences between the graduates who have chosen “surgical fields” and “internal fields”.

Free Research Field

医学教育