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Aim
This study investigated the impact of COVID‐19 on emergency general surgery practice particularly on referrals, diagnosis, investigations, management pathways, outcomes, patient behaviour and consultant practice.
Patients and Methods
Retrospective data collection from two cohorts: 112 patients admitted over 1 week in pre‐COVID period and 90 patients admitted over 1 week during the COVID period...
Background
Conventionally, the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) requires the recruitment of patients with appropriate physical signs, which became impossible during the fifth wave of the local COVID‐19 pandemic. To host the final OSCE without any actual patients, our department developed a skin model from readily available materials.
Setting
One of the final‐year surgical OSCE stations focused...
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