EDUCATION

• Leadership, education are essential surgical skills
• Planning, implementation, evaluation are keys to successful educational initiatives
• Organizing structured in-service training
  - New technology
  - Medications
  - Treatment regimens
  • Important way of improving patient care
  • Challenge, stimulate interest of staff
• Education during active provision of patient care necessary
• People may forget what they are told but will remember what they do
• Educational opportunities include:
  - Morning report
  - Bedside teaching rounds
  - Formal educational rounds
  - Morbidity and mortality meetings
  - Team training in trauma care practice