Teaching Emergency Surgical Skills for Trauma Resuscitation-Mechanical Simulator versus Animal Model

Table 2

Suitability for learning surgical skills in the ATLS course with TraumaMan recognizing the concerns of animal models.

Participants	Scores				Mean score
	1	2	3	4
Student (𝑛=18)	0	4	7	7	3.17 (SD ± 0.79)	𝑃 value = 0.079
Teacher (𝑛=14)	0	1	3	10	3.64 (SD ± 0.63)
Overall (𝑛=32)	0	5 (16%)	10 (31%)	17 (53%)	3.38 (SD ± 0.75)

1: Not suitable, 2: acceptable, 3: very acceptable, and 4: excellent.