Abstract

The aim of this study is to evaluate postgraduate surgical education in Turkey and to determine the variations between different teaching institutions. A questionnaire was sent to the chiefs of surgical departments of 22 university, 10 ministry of health, 6 social security and 1 foundation teaching hospitals. The response rate to the questionnaire was 77%. The number of annual operation was between 350-400 and 40-60% of them were performed by residents. There was no significant difference between the university hospitals in respect to resident/bed and educators/resident ratio, rotations and early publications. Assessment examinations during training was used in 27% of the university and 15% of non-university hospitals. Chief residency was present in 55.5% of the university and 25% of the non university hospitals. Significant variations were present between institutions in respect to the standards and homogeneity of the training given.