Preparing senior medical students for surgical internship: the value of a half-day intervention

Students completed a preworkshop questionnaire that solicited basic demographic information and asked participants to assess their comfort level on simple suturing and knot tying, basic surgical floor and in- tensive care unit (ICU) management, surgical note writing, oral case presentation, and surgical anatomy using a 5-point Likert scale. [...]discordance be- tween perceived and actual skill improvement oc- curred, disrupting the analysis and interpretation of these data.