Surgical Education
Theorising an Emerging Domain
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Current training modalities within ureteroscopy have been extensively validated and must now be integrated within a comprehensive curriculum. Additionally, non-technical skills often cause surgical error and l...
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One important form of surgical training for residents is their participation in actual operations, for instance as an assistant or supervised surgeon. The aim of this study was to explore what participation in...
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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...
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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...
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Stress can impair surgical performance and may compromise patient safety. This prospective, cross-sectional study describes the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the Imperial Stress Assessment Tool (IS...
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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...
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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...