title: Burns teaching in UK medical schools: Is it enough?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Burns are frequently seen and managed in non-specialist settings. The crowding of the UK medical undergraduate curriculum may have resulted in the reduction of teaching on burns.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To determine the burns education experience and the level of competence among UK final year medical students in assessing and acutely managing patients with burns.
  
  
  METHODS
  An online questionnaire was circulated among UK final year medical students.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There was a total of 348 respondents. The majority of the respondents (70%) have not received any specific teaching on how to manage patients with burns. Nearly two-thirds of the students (66%) have never seen a patient being managed for burns throughout their training. Over 90% of respondents stated that they would not feel confident in initially managing a burn in the emergency department. The majority of the respondents (57%) have not heard of the criteria for referring a burns patient for further specialist management. There was almost universal agreement about the importance of knowing how to manage a burn initially.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There seems to be a lack of consistent undergraduate training in burns management and final year students lack the experience and knowledge to initially manage burns.
authors.affiliation: St George's Hospital, Blackshaw Road, Tooting, London SW17 0QT, UK. Electronic address: ruslan@doctors.org.uk.
authors.forename: Ruslan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zinchenko
authors.affiliation: Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead RH19 3DZ, UK. Electronic address: fionamperry@doctors.org.uk.
authors.forename: Fiona M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Perry
authors.affiliation: Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead RH19 3DZ, UK. Electronic address: Baljit.Dheansa@QVH.nhs.uk.
authors.forename: Baljit S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Dheansa
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000628:therapy*; D002321:Career Choice; D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D019468:Disease Management; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000592:standards*; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D006801:Humans; D013337:Students, Medical; D013518:Surgery, Plastic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Burns; Curriculum; Education; Exposure; Medical students; UK