title: Student insight about the discipline of surgical technique on the formative process in the School of Medicine of UFRJ.
abstract: To evaluate whether undergraduate students feel motivated to develop surgical skills and know their impression about the importance of having a surgical technique discipline in the curriculum of a medical school.
  A prospective study including three classes in a row, from the 8th period (n = 265) evaluated the knowledge acquired at the Center of Experimental Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). The importance of the discipline for medical training as a way of encouragement to arouse and deepen the interest in surgical technique was emphasized. The questions were scored from 1 to 5 (worst to best grade) .
  Concerning the importance of the discipline for medical training, 78% and 18% of the students assigned a score 5 and 4, respectively. Regarding the stimulus to improve their surgical technical skills, 40% and 32% attributed the score 5 and 4, respectively.
  Undergraduate students from the Medical School of UFRJ effectively shared the understanding that the operative technique bases improve the formative process with significant impact, not only in the development of skills, but also to arouse vocations and stimulate new attitudes aimed to knowledge acquirement in the field of Surgery.
authors.affiliation: Graduate student, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Design of the study; acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data; statistical analysis, manuscript writing.
authors.forename: Victor Diniz
authors.initials: VD
authors.lastname: Senna
authors.affiliation: Scientific initiation student, Grant from Institutional Program for Scientific Initiation (PIBIC), National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq), Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. Manu-script preparation.
authors.forename: Keren
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Cozer
authors.affiliation: PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. Acquisition and interpretation of data.
authors.forename: Manoel Luiz
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.affiliation: PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. Acquisition and interpretation of data.
authors.forename: José Marcus Raso
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Eulálio
authors.affiliation: PhD, Assistant Professor, Head, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. Acquisition and interpretation of data.
authors.forename: Paulo Cesar
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: PhD, Associate Professor, Head, Postgraduate Program in Surgical Sciences, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. Acquisition and interpretation of data.
authors.forename: José Eduardo Ferreira
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Manso
authors.affiliation: Full Professor, Head, Center of Experimental Surgical. Coordinator, Postgraduate Program in Surgical Sciences, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. Conception and design of the study, manuscript writing, critical revision.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schanaider
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005260:Female; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013337:Students, Medical