Self-Assessment of Confidence of Internee Doctors in Performing 1-7 Common Surgical Operations

Atotal of 140 internee doctors who had just completed or were about to complete their internship training from four leading Medical College Hospitals of Bangladesh were asked to fillup a pre-tested structured questionnaire. Ofthem 115were male and 25were female. Allthe participants had 6 months compulsory training in Medicine, 123 had 6 months training in Surgery and 17 had 6 months training in Obstetrics-Gynecology. Over 50% doctors expressed lack of confidence in performing ligation, vasectomy, splinting simple fractures, venesection, episiotomy, hydrocele operation, circumci…

 

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