Assessment of a Mandatory Curriculum for Laparoscopic Skills Using a Portable, Self-Practice Box Trainer Outside of Duty Hours
Michael Russo, MD, Shawn Tsuda, MD. University of Nevada School of Medicine Background: Surgical skills training has become an integral part of general surgery residency programs. However, there remains no consensus as to what should comprise a mandatory curriculum. Further, defined practice or proficiency requirements designed outside of the 80-hour work week have not been… Continue Reading
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- Education / Simulation
Endoscopic Skills Level- Do We Need to Set Standards and Evaluation Methods for a Safe Training and Practice?
Ben Selvan, MD, Amy Cha, MD, Jon B Morris, MD, Joe Palmerie, MD, Krisoffel Dumon, MD, Noel Williams, MD, Gary Korus, MD. Penn Medicine Clinical simulation center, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia Background: The Surgical Council on Resident Education has identified endoscopy as a "common" or "essential" procedure that requires competency by the end… Continue Reading
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Graduated Operative Training of Fellows Can Be Safely Accomplished in a Minimally Invasive Surgical Fellowship
Paul N Montero, MD, Neal Agee, MD, Kent Kercher, MD, William Hope, MD, Amy E Lincourt, PhD, Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD PhD, B Todd Heniford, MD. Carolinas Laparoscopic and Advanced Surgery Program, Carolinas Medical Center Introduction: Poorer patient outcomes at the beginning of the academic year have been reported as a result of trainee inexperience ("July… Continue Reading
Can Virtual Reality Laparoscopic Simulators Predict Future Surgeons? One-Year Follow Up
Dana A Telem, MD, Emily Steinhagen, MD, Scott Q Nguyen, MD, Celia M Divino, MD FACS. The Mount Sinai Hospital Introduction: A previous study performed by the authors demonstrated significantly superior VR (virtual reality) simulator performance in third-year medical students interested in surgical careers. The purpose of this study was to assess whether a correlation… Continue Reading
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Mastery Versus Standard Proficiency Targets for Basic Laparoscopic Skill Training: Effect On Skill Transfer and Retention
Nicoleta O Kolozsvari, MD, Pepa Kaneva, MSc, Chantalle Brace, Genevieve Chartrand, Marilou Vaillancourt, MD, Melina C Vassiliou, MD, Gerald M Fried, MD, Liane S Feldman, MD. Steinberg-Bernstein Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery and Innovation, McGill University, Montreal, Qc, Canada Introduction: Simulation is effective for the acquisition of fundamental surgical skills through goal-directed practice. There is… Continue Reading
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How We Are Training Laparoscopic Surgery in Kameda Medical Center
Noritsugu Naito, MD, Nobuyasu Kano, MD PhD. KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER Currently laparoscopic surgery is getting standard. Many procedures such as cholecystectomy, gastrectomy and colectomy are performed primarily by laparoscopic technique. The main concern about educating young doctors is how to give a well balanced education in both open and laparoscopic surgery. In the era of… Continue Reading
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Self-Guided Video Review of Performance Does Not Improve Learning in Basic Simulated Tasks
Daniel Box, BS, Nilay Shah, MD, Benoit Mapa, BS, Rollin Nagel, PhD, David Way, MS, Rebecca Dettorre, CCRC, Alan E Harzman, MD. The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio Introduction Video recording of laparoscopic procedures has become simple and inexpensive in many institutions. Our goal was to determine if assigning trainees to review videos… Continue Reading
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Characteristics of Instantaneous Adaptations with Display Latencies in a Simulated Telesurgery Platform
Gyusung Lee, PhD, Carlos Godinez, MD, Jesus Caban, PhD, Tameka Clanton, MS, Adrian Park, MD. University of Maryland Introduction: This study investigates through quantitative performance analysis how well laparoscopic surgeons would instantaneously adapt to various levels of latency in a simulated laparoscopic telesurgical environment. Recently, advances and innovation in surgical settings have raised a number… Continue Reading
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Proficiency-Based Training for Robotic Surgery: Construct Validity and Workload for Nine Inanimate Exercises
Genevieve Dulan, MD, Robert V Rege, MD, Deborah C Hogg, BS, Kristine K Gilberg-Fisher, RN BSN, Nabeel A Arain, MD MBA, Seifu T Tesfay, RN MS, Daniel J Scott, MD. University of Texas, Southwestern Introduction: We previously developed 9 inanimate training exercises as part of a comprehensive, proficiency-based robotic training curriculum that addressed 23 unique… Continue Reading
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- Podium Presentations
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- Education / Simulation
Minimally Invasive Surgery Training in the Caribbean – A Survey of Surgeons and Residents
Pierre-Anthony E Leake, MD, Joseph Plummer, MD, Alia Qureshi, MD, Allan Okrainec, MD MSc. Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario; University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica INTRODUCTION: There has been debate as to the feasibility of incorporating MIS into surgical practice in developing countries due to resource and training limitations. The… Continue Reading
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Methodist Advanced (MAD) Skills Drills : Modification of a Box Trainer to Enable ‘Off Axis’ Training in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery
Rohan A Joseph, MD, Brian J Dunkin, MD, Barbara L Bass, MD, Patrick R Reardon, MD. Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education (MITIE), Deaprtment of Surgery, The Methodist Hospital, Houston -TX Introduction: Standard laparoscopic surgery utilizes a triangulated configuration of the instruments with respect to the camera. This on-axis configuration is seldom encountered in… Continue Reading
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- Podium Presentations
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- Education / Simulation
Pitfalls and Learning Points for a Trainee in Laparoscopy-Assisted Gastrectomy of Early Gastric Cancer
Hiroshi Kawahira, MD PhD, Hideki Hayashi, MD PhD, Toshiyuki Natsume, MD PhD, Takashi Akai, MD PhD, Yoshihiro Nabeya, MD PhD, Kazufumi Suzuki, MD PhD, Mikito Mori, MD PhD, Daisuke Horibe, MD PhD, Hisahiro Matsubara, MD PhD. Research Center for Frontier Medical Engineering, Chiba University (1) Objective of this studyLaparoscopic assisted gastrectomy (LAG) has been accepted… Continue Reading
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Movement Consistency By Optical Tracking Correlates with Surgical Expertise
Fraser Anderson, BSc, Daniel W Birch, MSc MD, Pierre Boulanger, PhD PEng, Walter F Bischof, PhD. University of Alberta, Alberta Health Services INTRODUCTION Automated, objective evaluation may lead to an improved understanding of surgical dexterity. Previous research has identified the discriminating power of simple measures such as instrument path length and motion smoothness in differentiating… Continue Reading
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Intraoperative Assessment of Surgical Technical and Non-Technical Skills in Open and Laparoscopic Cases
Pierre-Anthony E Leake, MD, Julie Takata, MA, David R Urbach, MD MSc. Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study was to evaluate technical and non-technical operative skills of professional surgeons in real clinical settings, performing open and laparoscopic general surgical procedures. There has been recent interest in the evaluation of… Continue Reading
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Image Inversion and Digital Mirror Image Technology Aid Laparoscopic Surgery Task Performance in the Paradoxical View: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Richdeep Gill, MD, Harshdeep Mangat, BSc, David P Al-Adra, MD, Haili Wang, MD FRCSC, Xinzhe Shi, MPH, Cliff Sample, MD FRCSC. University of Alberta Objective:As laparoscopic surgical procedures increase in complexity, surgeons may find themselves with the laparoscope opposite to their laparoscopic instruments, thus creating the paradoxical viewpoint. We assessed whether surgical task performance in… Continue Reading
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- Posters
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- Education / Simulation