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Surgical Preparatory Camp (PREP Camp)

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In 2013, the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto launched its first department-wide boot camp, a program that is now offered to all incoming surgical residents. As an integral part of surgical training in Toronto, the course is mandatory for all first-year residents and serves over 50 trainees each July. In this chapter, we review the background and principles behind this ambitious course, and we offer the information needed to establish a similar skills course at other institutions.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Lisa Satterthwaite & Jennifer Leighton

  2. Surgical Skills Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Lisa Satterthwaite

  3. Surgical Skills Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Oleg Safir

  4. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Oleg Safir

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Correspondence to Lisa Satterthwaite .

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  1. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Oleg Safir

  2. Department of Surgery, Office of Education Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Ranil Sonnadara

  3. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Polina Mironova

  4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, United Lincolnshire Hospital, Boston, United Kingdom

    Rohit Rambani

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Satterthwaite, L., Leighton, J., Safir, O. (2018). Surgical Preparatory Camp (PREP Camp). In: Safir, O., Sonnadara, R., Mironova, P., Rambani, R. (eds) Boot Camp Approach to Surgical Training. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90518-1_8

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