Surgical Education
Theorising an Emerging Domain
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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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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...