Basic Plastic Surgery Skills Training Program on Inanimate Bench Models during Medical Graduation

Table 2

Proposed training time in this basic plastic surgery training program.

	Training time (h) per week
Learning goals	First day		Second to sixth day	Seventh day	Total number of weeks**
	Verbal teaching based on theoretical materials	Training on BM in the classroom; (process feedback)	Training on BM outside the classroom*	Training on BM after practice outside the classroom; (outcome feedback)
Surgical knots	1	1	Variable	1	2
Incision and suture techniques	1	2	Variable	2	2
Biopsy techniques	1	3	Variable	3	3^≈
Skin grafts	1	3	Variable	3	3^¥
Surgical flaps	1	4	Variable	4	5^o
Management of cutaneous lesions	2	4	Variable	4	4^#

h: hour; BM: bench models; *each medical student must train repeatedly for as long as you feel necessary; instructor's role is to encourage this practice outside the classroom; **one week for introduction of the subject in each of the six skills; ^≈one week for incisional biopsies (without safety margins) and one for excisional biopsies (safety margins); ^¥one week for the handling of the surgical instruments for the preparation of graft (donor area) and one for graft placement on recipient area; ^oone week for each type of flap (transposition, rotation, advancement, and island flaps); ^#one week for each proposed cutaneous lesion (lipomas/epidermoid cysts, necrotic wounds, and non-melanoma skin cancer).