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Review
. 2020 May 1;63(3):E208-E210.
doi: 10.1503/cjs.005919.

The "teaching time-out": a novel framework for surgical education

Keegan Guidolin  1 , Han Yan  1 , Fayez Quereshy  1
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Review

The "teaching time-out": a novel framework for surgical education

Keegan Guidolin et al. Can J Surg. .

Abstract

In the decade since its inception, the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist has fundamentally changed the conduct of surgery the world over. A critical component of the checklist - the "pause" or "time-out" - requires all operating room staff to stop other activities and together review critical information about the case to ensure that nothing is missed. Surgical trainees in Canada are transitioning to a competency-based medical education model; a core aspect of this model requires trainees to advocate for their own learning goals. We propose the use of a detailed and formalized preoperative pause as a means to enable superior and more targeted intraoperative learning for surgical trainees.

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The LEARN framework. A printable version of this frame-work is available in Appendix 1 at canjsurg.ca/005919-a1.
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