Application of 5E teaching model combined with virtual endoscopic surgery simulation system in surgical teaching

Exploring the application of 5E teaching model combined with virtual endoscopic surgical simulation system in surgical teaching. Eighty-six students who received standardized residency training in the Department of General Surgery at the Second Hospital of Shanxi Medical University from September 2022 to June 2023 were selected as the research subjects. They were randomly divided into experimental and control groups, with 43 students in each group. The experimental group adopts the 5E teaching mode combined with a virtual endoscopic surgery simulation system for teaching. In contrast, the control group was taught using traditional teaching and a simple endoscopic simulation training box. A comparison was made between the evaluation results, self-evaluation, and teaching mode evaluation of the two groups. A <i>t</i>-test was performed on two sets of measurement data using SPSS 26.0 software. The theoretical test scores (<i>t</i> = 17.240, <i>p</i> = 0.000) and skill test scores (<i>t</i> = 21.335, <i>p</i> = 0.000) of students in the experimental group were higher than those in the control group. Compared to the control group, the experimental group showed significant improvement in operational skills (<i>t</i> = 3.557, <i>p</i> = 0.001), knowledge application (<i>t</i> = 4.936, <i>p</i> = 0.000), and overall performance (<i>t</i> = 2.999, <i>p</i> = 0.003) after training. The attitudes of students in the experimental group toward ability training (<i>t</i> = 3.818, <i>p</i> = 0.000), class order (<i>t</i> = 3.189, <i>p</i> = 0.002), teaching mode (<i>t</i> = 2.955, <i>p</i> = 0.004), and teaching level evaluation (<i>t</i> = 6.238, <i>p</i> = 0.000) were significantly higher than those in the control group. The virtual endoscopic surgery simulation system combined with the 5E teaching mode can significantly improve the theoretical knowledge and clinical practice skills of resident physicians in standardized training. Suggest applying it to clinical teaching.