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    Surgical Education: A Historical Perspective

    This chapter considers how the landscape of surgical education has changed over the past century and how the educational certainties of an earlier generation have been supplanted by fluidity and instability. A...

    Roger Kneebone in Advancing Surgical Education (2019)

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    Exploration: Wigs, Brown Sauce and Theatrical Dames—Clinical Simulation as Play

    This exploration examines how clinical simulation, performed in hospitals as a form of training, can be understood as play, involving creating and maintaining fictions, role-playing theatrical characters and e...

    Caroline Pelletier, Roger Kneebone in The Power of Play in Higher Education (2019)

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    Cutting for a career; a discussion of the domains of surgical competence using expert bespoke tailoring as a metaphor for surgical practice

    Competency based surgical training uses proficiency of technical skills to quantify surgical competency. We believe this is an over simplification of what is required to be a competent surgeon. This work aims ...

    Jacqueline Rees-Lee, Roger Kneebone in Advances in Health Sciences Education (2015)

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    Key challenges in simulated patient programs: An international comparative case study

    The literature on simulated or standardized patient (SP) methodology is expanding. However, at the level of the program, there are several gaps in the literature. We seek to fill this gap through documenting e...

    Debra Nestel, Diana Tabak, Tanya Tierney, Carine Layat-Burn in BMC Medical Education (2011)

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    Researching Surgical Education

    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...

    Heather Fry, Nick Sevdalis, Roger Kneebone in Surgical Education (2011)

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    The Environment of Surgical Training and Education

    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...

    Roger Kneebone, Heather Fry in Surgical Education (2011)

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    Simulation

    This chapter starts from the premise that simulation is a key element in surgical education, but that current approaches can lead to unhelpful oversimplication of the complexities of real world clinical practi...

    Roger Kneebone in Surgical Education (2011)