Survey on the surgical skills of orthopedics and traumatology residents from accredited and nonaccredited institutions in istanbul acta orthop traumatol turc

d a core training curriculum At the end of the training period, all the competences in the report card were required to be approved and the fields outside the resident’s competence had to be appropriately completed Because there are no clear rules on which year the competences on the report card should be obtained and evaluated, the program managers and trainers could measure and monitor the competencies based on the level of seniority Competence should be approved when the level specified in the learning objectives is achieved; otherwise, feedback should be provided to eliminate the deficiencies before giving approval Training officers are expected to provide their maximum efforts in monitoring the report cards, motivating the residents, and taking measures to remedy deficiencies We found that the residents believed that they could mostly perform surgeries in the fields of trauma, followed by arthroplasty, deformity, arthroscopy, pediatric orthopedics, hand surgery, spine, and tumor surgery When all the residents’ responses regarding whether they could perform the surgeries were reviewed, a significant difference was found between the averages of the surgical fields (p=0.00