Surgical Education and Research

Surgical education research: an IDEAL proposition.

Robotic Systems and Surgical Education

This experimental study aimed at evaluating the efficiency of robots in the learning of surgical techniques. We recruited 40 surgeons, divided them into 2 groups of 20, each of which used the robotic system. The first group consisted of experienced physicians, and the second group comprised physicians in training. Each surgeon was allowed to use the da Vinci robotic system for 30 minutes twice ...

Professionalism, Passion, and Surgical Education

He replied that while on a previous surgical rotation in another state, residents were “mean to one another and mean to the medical students.” He went on to say that the surgical residency program was very hierarchical and medical students “weren’t allowed” to speak with senior level residents let alone speak with the attending surgical staff. The student related being the target of verbal abus...

Surgical education on YouTube.

T he increasing popularity of internet social media is likely to present new opportunities and challenges to current paradigms in medical education. 1 Some advocate that social media (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and so forth) can enhance learning opportunities outside the classroom, and can be especially helpful to promote self-directed learning. 1 YouTube (www. youtube.com) was created in 2005...

Philosophy, Research, and Education

Research always conveys a commitment to philosophical beliefs even if this is unintended and even though it remains implicit and unacknowledged. . . . [Researchers] cannot evade the responsibility for critically examining and justifying the philosophical ideas that their enquiries incorporate. It follows that philosophical reflection and argumentation are central features of the methods and pro...