Amezene Tadesse, Mohammed Kedir, Sahilu Wondimu, Bernard Anderson. Essential Surgical Skills. , , 2007.

Essential surgical skills are vital for the training of trainees in surgical practice. In North America it has been a corner stone of surgical training for more than a century. In Ethiopia this course started to be given as integral part of the surgical curricula of medical students not for more than 10 years. The ethical issue and effectiveness of surgical training by using real patient has raised the concept of essential surgical course. These basic surgical skills are learned and practiced on models and simulators