Summary
Left-handedness was historically considered a disability and a social stigma, and teachers would make efforts to suppress it in their students. Little data are available on the impact of left-handedness on surgical training and this report aimed to review available data on this subject.
The review revealed 19 studies on the subject of left-handedness and surgical training. Key findings include:
- Left-handedness produced anxiety in residents and their trainers.
- There was a lack of mentoring on laterality.
- Surgical instruments, both conventional and laparoscopic, are not adapted to left-handed use and require ambilaterality training from the resident.
- There is significant pressure to change hand laterality during training.
- Left-handedness might present an advantage in operations involving situs inversus or left lower limb operations.
Left-handedness—A handicap for training in surgery? (2010)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1931720410001686
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