ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE OPERATIVE PERFORMANCE RATING SYSTEM (OPRS) AMONG GRADUATE STUDENTS AND OBSTETRICS-GYNECOLOGY RESIDENTS
Educational Measurement, Internship and Residency, Surgicenter
OBJECTIVE: To analyze and apply the Operative Performance Rating System (OPRS) as a tool of evaluation in real scenarios of surgical practice, to evaluate undergraduate students and residents, as a complement to the existing evaluation methods. METHODS: Cross-sectional, descriptive, quantitative study that assessed the performance of students and residents during the execution of gynecological surgeries in a university hospital. The students were evaluated according to the scores obtained in the OPRS items (anatomy, surgical instruments, surgery flow, interaction with the team and overall performance). The software Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, version 21, was used to analyze the data, applying Analysis of Variance, Tukey test and student t-test. RESULTS: Comparing the means of the variables of the OPRS items, a difference was observed between the methods in the evaluation items according to to the graduation and residence period (p <0.001). Among the undergraduates, there was a difference in the means of the evaluation items (p <0.05), except for interaction (p <0.108). For the residents, the analysis showed a difference in the means of the evaluation items related to the medical residence time (p <0.001). CONCLUSION: The use of OPRS in the evaluation process of residents and undergraduates allows a differentiation between levels of knowledge, allowing the monitoring of progress according to the study time and offering immediate feedback on the performance in the surgical practice.