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    Implementation of a Surgical Simulation Care Pathway Approach to Training in Emergency Abdominal Surgery

    Simulation-based care pathway approach (CPA) training is a novel approach in surgical education. The objective of the present study was to determine whether CPA was feasible for training surgical residents and...

    Laura Beyer-Berjot, Vishal Patel, Pramudith Sirimanna in World Journal of Surgery (2020)

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    Deliberate practice enhances quality of laparoscopic surgical performance in a randomized controlled trial: from arrested development to expert performance

    This study investigated whether deliberate practice leads to an increase in surgical quality in virtual reality (VR) laparoscopic cholecystectomies (LC). Previous research has suggested that sustained DP is ef...

    Daniel A. Hashimoto, Pramudith Sirimanna, Ernest D. Gomez in Surgical Endoscopy (2015)

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    Stress impairs psychomotor performance in novice laparoscopic surgeons

    Little is known about acute stress in surgery although it is recognized to impair human performance in safety–critical industries. This study aimed to establish a direct empirical link between stress and psych...

    Sonal Arora, Nick Sevdalis, Rajesh Aggarwal, Pramudith Sirimanna in Surgical Endoscopy (2010)

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    Development and validation of mental practice as a training strategy for laparoscopic surgery

    Concerns for patient safety have accelerated the need for alternative training strategies outside the operating room. Mental practice (MP: the use of mental imagery to rehearse a task symbolically before perfo...

    Sonal Arora, Rajesh Aggarwal, Nick Sevdalis, Aidan Moran in Surgical Endoscopy (2010)