Surgical Education
Theorising an Emerging Domain
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Intra-gastric balloons (IGB) are a mainstay of endoscopic treatment of overweight and obesity. In recent years, an IGB which can remain in situ for 12 months has been developed. The current study aimed to anal...
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This chapter adopts the position that changes to medical and surgical education over the last 25 years can only be properly understood through an appreciation of the evolution of key educational ideas over tha...
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Surgical education research is based more firmly in the social sciences than in the hard sciences because of the subject matters it investigates. This chapter introduces key features of some of the major quant...
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This book argues that surgical education is an emerging field, which is establishing its own identity. At present, however, the field’s boundaries are not clearly drawn. This indistinctness is both problematic...
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In this chapter we describe the characteristics of qualitative research, considering why and when it might be used within surgical practice. We highlight similarities and differences between qualitative and qu...