Coaching for Surgical Skill Development: Stressful but Effective
Ibrahim I Jabbour1, Dimitrios Stefanidis2, Aimee K Gardner3. 1Florida Atlantic University College of Medicine, 2Indiana University School of Medicine, 3University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterBackground: Coaching has been identified as an effective technique to improve the technical proficiency of surgeons in training and in practice. However, previous work has shown that high levels of feedback… Continue Reading
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Mathematical analysis for hand motion of laparoscopic surgeon and its implication for training
Morimasa Tomikawa, MD, PhD, Munenori Uemura, PhD, Kazuo Tanoue, MD, PhD, Makoto Hashizume, MD, PhD. Department of Advanced Medicine and Innovative TechnologyBackground: Hand motions of laparoscopic surgeons may reflect their skills and levels of proficiency. Aim: This study was performed to examine the differences between the hand motions of the expert and the novice surgeons.… Continue Reading
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Endoscopic Avatars: Operator and Scope Motion Tracking and Analysis for Teaching Complex Endoscopic Maneuvers
K Siegersma1, E Rozeboom, PhD1, P Riva2, V Agnus, PhD3, L Goffin, PhD4, A van der Schot1, B Dallemagne, MD3, S Perretta, MD3. 1Technical Medicine, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2Institute of Image Guided Surgery, Strasbourg, France, 3IRCAD, Strasbourg, 4ICube, University of Strasbourg, FranceINTRODUCTION: The increasing development of interventional endoscopy raises the challenge to… Continue Reading
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“Make Your Own Laparoscopic Simulator” – Results from a Competition Held for Surgical Residents in a Limited Resources Country.
Awais A Malik1, Ruqayya Khan2, Sumaria Saddique2, Samiullah Bhatti2, Huma S Khan2, Kashif Malik2, Saira Tayyab2, Amin Mazhar2, Mahmood Ayyaz2. 1Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, 2Services Institute of Medical SciencesObjective: To share the various designs of laparoscopic simulators designed by surgical residents at a local conference in a lower middle income country.… Continue Reading
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Video-Based Coaching for Endoscopy: Use of a Secure Mobile Phone Application for Procedural Video Analysis
Jeffrey D Hawel, MD, Jordan Eng, MD, James C Ellsmere, FRCSC, FACS. Dalhousie UniversityINTRODUCTION: We investigate the use of a mobile phone application as a platform for video-based coaching for endoscopic procedures. The educational landscape is ripe with opportunity to employ technology to facilitate continuing professional development and disseminate new techniques and ideas. Long utilized… Continue Reading
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Simulation to Aquire Experience in a Low Volume of Hepatic Laparoscopic Surgerys Centres
Ruben Avila, MD1, Achurra Pablo, MD1, Tejos Rodrigo, MD1, Pacheco Sergio, MD1, Erwin Buckel, MD1, Rebolledo Rolando, PhD1, Leon Felipe, MD1, Juan Ramos, MD2, Marcel Sanhueza, MD1, Nicolas Jarufe, MD1, Julian Varas, MD1. 1Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2Hospital Dr Sotero del RioIntroduction: Simulation could give the necessary training to complete long and complex curves… Continue Reading
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Advanced Laparoscopic yet Institutionally Low Volume Operations: Implementing a Longitudinal Curriculum to Address the Current Training Gap
Benjamin R Veenstra, MD2, Kristine U Makiewicz, MD2, Kunal H Patel, MD1, Jose M Velasco, MD, FACS2. 1MetroHealth Medical Center, 2Rush University Medical Center Mandated changes in traditional surgical training have resulted in less resident operative exposure and acquisition of technical skill, estimated at a year’s worth of clinical experience. Recent literature suggests that a… Continue Reading
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Operative Time and Mortality Rate as Outcome Measures for Assessment of Residents’ Operative Performance in Live Porcine Model
Nisha Dhanabalsamy, MD, Obiyo Osuchukwu, MD, Julia Samame, MD, Shawn Fu, MD, Carlos Galvani, MD, Iman Ghaderi, MD. University of ArizonaINTRODUCTION: Simulation-based training has become an integral part of most residency training programs in the US. The objective of this study was to assess whether operative time and pigs’ mortality rate can be used as… Continue Reading
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Robotic Skills May Be Derived from Skills Attained in a Laparoscopic Simulator
Daniel Davila, MD, Melissa C Helm, BS, Jon C Gould, MD, Matthew I Goldblatt, MD. Medical College of WisconsinIntroduction: General Surgery is currently the fastest growing specialty with regards to robotic surgical system utilization. Contrary to the recent experience in laparoscopy, simulator training for robotic surgery is not widely employed partly because robotic surgical simulators… Continue Reading
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Advancing Resident Spatial Reasoning Strategies: Integration of Video Technology, Feedback Tools, and Learner Individualization
Melanie H Howell, MD, MS, Katherine MacCallum, MD, John Paul Bellistri, MD, Francis B Baccay, MD. Montefiore Medical CenterINTRODUCTION: Laparoscopic surgery poses unique challenges when it comes to resident education. Skills needed for learning laparoscopy are different than for open procedures, thus tools for training residents must be different. Video recording of an individual’s performance… Continue Reading
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Adding fragility to the FLS tasks improves the accuracy of assessing laparoscopic skills
Yusuke Watanabe, MD1, Yo Kurashima, MD1, Elif Bilgic, MSc2, Saseem Poudel, MD1, Tomoko MIzota, MD1, Shinichiro Yokohama, MD1, Toshiaki Shichinohe, MD1, Satoshi Hiring, MD1. 1Department of Gastroenterological surgery II, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, 2Steinberg-Bernstein Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery and Innovation, McGill University Health CentreIntroduction: The Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) program has… Continue Reading
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Surgical Chief Resident Competency in Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery: Are We Ready?
J P Wallace, MD1, Vernon D Horst, MD1, Joshua S Brandner, DDS, MD1, Hetal D Patel, MD2, Stan C Hewlett, MD1, Greg L Bearden, MD1. 1Brookwood Baptist Health System, Department of Surgery, Birmingham, AL, 2University of Kentucky, Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Lexington, KYINTRODUCTION - The objective of this study was to evaluate… Continue Reading
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Concordance between crowd workers and faculty experts in assessment of the critical view of safety in laparoscopic cholecystectomy using crowd-sourced assessment of technical skills
Shanley B Deal, MD1, Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS2, Robert D Fanelli, MD, MHA, FACS, FASGE3, Marian P McDonald, MD, FACS4, Dana Telem, MD, MPH5, Michael Ujiki, MD6, L. Michael Brunt, MD7, Adnan A Alseidi, MD, EdM, FACS1. 1Virginia Mason Medical Center, 2Indiana University, 3The Guthrie Clinic, 4St. Luke’s University Health Network, 5University of… Continue Reading
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Can the Endoscopy Training System (ETS) be used as a Screening Tool to Predict who will pass the Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) Examination?
Aimee K Gardner1, Aman B Ali2, Matthew Ritter3, Michael B Ujiki4, Brian J Dunkin2. 1University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2Houston Methodist Hospitl, 3Uniform Services University, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 4Northshore University Health SystemIntroduction: There is an increasing amount of work suggesting that existing flexible endoscopy training curricula in surgical residency may be… Continue Reading
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A flexible endoscopic trainer based on adaptation of the FLS box is able to predict novice and expert performance on therapeutic flexible endoscopy tasks
Andrea V Kwong, MASc1, Oscar M Crespin, MD1, Ilay Habaz1, Pietro Riva, MD2, Ethan Weiss1, Silvana Perretta, MD2, Lee L Swanstrom, MD3, Allan Okrainec, MD1, Eran Shlomovitz, MD1. 1University Health Network, Toronto, Canada, 2IRCAD-IHU, Strasbourg, France, 3The Oregon Clinic, Portland, United StatesBackground: As the Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) system was primarily designed for high… Continue Reading
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