title: [Promoting Young Talents in Trauma Surgery through Students-On-Call].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Due to restrictions on admission to medical school, changing claims to an optimized work-life balance and occupational perspectives, surgical professions in particular are struggling with strategies to motivate young academics. Surgical disziplines aim towards a profound transfer of knowledge and pique student's interest by ensuring a sustainable education at university.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The goal of this study was to evaluate a Students-On-Call System (SOCS) and to identify a financial benefit.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this study the SOCS was compared pre-/postevaluation using questionnaires and the supporting X‑rays within a curricular teaching module of orthopedic trauma surgery, with students in the fourth semester of specialism and those in the practical semester at medical school.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The students of SOCS showed significantly better results prior to the course and afterwards than the two other groups. By establishing SOCS medical students get involved into the treatment of emergency patients in the trauma resuscitation unit (TRU) and operating room (OR). Students get the chance to enhance their comprehension of diagnostics, therapy and decision making in surgical context. This highly valuable traineeship combines a minimized teaching effort with an effective motivation of young academcis for the surgical profession. A SOCS has reduced the workload of medical colleagues. Establishing SOCS spare the residents being on call and results in reduced costs of 23,659.86 Euro per year.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results presented show that the SOCS leads to an excellent cost-benefit balance, which has been established in multiple surgical departments at the medical school of the University of Göttingen. Apart from practice-oriented surgical teaching, the SOCS is a way of promoting successful young talent saving resources in the medical on-call services.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Deutschland. christopher.spering@med.uni-goettingen.de.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spering
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Sporttraumatologie und Handchirurgie, Klinikum Vest, Recklinghausen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tezval
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dresing
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Burchhardt
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wachowski
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: August
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Frosch
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Walde
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Stürmer
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Lehmann
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Plastische Chirurgie, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Robert-Koch-Straße 40, 37075, Göttingen, Deutschland.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sehmisch
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001076:Aptitude; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002982:Clinical Clerkship / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013337:Students, Medical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014940:Work Schedule Tolerance; D000072358:Work-Life Balance; D016526:Workload; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: OR assistence; Promoting young talents; Students on call; Student’s education; Trauma-Room documentation