Surgical resident elective rotation abroad give different opportunity such experience a different teaching and training, acquire more and new operative experience, experience living and working in a different cultural environment. Furthermore, the growing process of globalization that involves the nations themselves in different sectors, should also lead to a homogeneity of training on a global level, in order to be able to guarantee adequate assistance to different types of patients at the same time, and the possibility for doctors themselves of working abroad. the objective of the study is to provide the first overview of what is the current Italian scenario concerning abroad elective rotations during surgical training
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
116
survey
Satisfaction grade of actual elective rotation abroad in Italy
A five point Likert-type scale
Time frame: 1 years
Gender
Ratio male/gender
Time frame: 1 year
Age at time of elective training
Age
Time frame: 1 year
Year of residency at the time of elective training
Multiple choice answers accounting 1 to 6
Time frame: 1 year
Institution visited
Multiple choice accounting 5 option such as university hospital, tertiary care hospital, referral center
Time frame: 1 year
Global surgical exposure
A five point Likert-type scale
Time frame: 1 year
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