**8. Conclusion**

We recommend that mental script development should be incorporated into the curriculum for faculty development. Learners should be instructed on motor imagery and mental practice techniques as part of the core skills training, like suturing and dissection. Furthermore, instructional design and technological competency should be incorporated into the curriculum for faculty development to develop instructional sound materials. Lastly, design and development research methodology should be incorporated into the faculty development programme to encourage design and developmental research in medical education research.

The case study described the methodological approach to design and develop a training module for skill acquisition for surgical training programmes, utilizing a design and developmental research framework. This study has addressed some of the challenges of surgical education and has described a model based on sound educational theories to design and develop training programmes. This will help health professional educators to design practical and relevant modules to facilitate procedural training moving forward. In summary, this study shows that instructional materials for standardised procedures should be guided by the design and development of a mental script. The tool that has been developed and described in this research provides the methodology for this.
