Objective: Poor communication between medical and surgical specialists negatively impacts patient care and represents a serious challenge for medical educators. The objective of this study was to measure the effect of a brief interspecialty education program on perceived communication between medical and surgical specialists at a US medical center. Methods: In 2011, an interspecialty education ...

Laparoscopic surgery is a transition technology that marked the beginning of the information age revolution for surgery. Telepresence surgery, robotics, tele-education, and telementoring are the next step in the revolution. Using computer-aided systems such as robotics and image-guided surgery, the next generation of surgical systems will be more sophisticated and will permit surgeons to perfor...

Formed in 1927, the College is a not-for-profit organisation training surgeons and maintaining surgical standards in Australia and New Zealand. A Fellowship based organisation, the College is committed to ensuring the highest standard of safe and comprehensive surgical care for the community we serve through excellence in surgical education, training, professional development and support. As pa...

164 March 2015, Vol. 105, No. 3 Inaugural International Association of Student Surgical Societies Symposium To the Editor: A noteworthy event for global undergraduate surgical education took place when the University of Cape Town Student Surgical Society successfully hosted the inaugural International Association of Student Surgical Societies (IASSS) Symposium. The IASSS is a recently establish...

Surgical education in the developing world faces greater challenges than in more resource rich countries. Many of these challenges were highlighted in the recently published Lancet Commission on Global Surgery and the lead commentary by Meara et al. 1 These challenges include greater financial constraints, poorer or nonexistent surgical infrastructure, less mature or poorly organized teaching p...

BACKGROUND There is compelling evidence to suggest that undergraduate surgical education may fail to provide appropriate instruction in basic surgical principles and skills. METHODS We completed a descriptive, cross-sectional survey of stakeholder groups (surgeon educators and recent medical school graduates) to assess the perceived relevance and learning for surgical principles, surgical ski...

Ambulatory surgery is now well established as an effective method to treat a wide range of surgical conditions. This has resulted in many surgical cases no longer being available as teaching resources for surgical students undertaking their clinical clerkship on a surgical ward. Changes in the final year surgical curriculum at the University of Adelaide resulted in the formation of a day surger...

Background Clinical education is an integral part of the surgical technology curriculum, in which students combine and integrate knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and philosophies of the profession. It is difficult to learn and adapt to different types of skills and roles in the operating room environment. Objective This qualitative study examines the difference between the clinical educat...

INTRODUCTION Three-dimensional printing, a technology used for decades in the industrial field, gains a lot of attention in the medical field for its potential benefits. With advancement of desktop printers, this technology is accessible and a lot of research is going on in the medical field. OBJECTIVE To evaluate its application in surgical field, which may include but not limited to surgica...

This article addresses the problems associated with current undergraduate surgical education and discusses the requirements necessary for its improvement during the third and fourth years of medical school. It asserts that, coincident with the emphasis on faculty research and publication and expanded resident patient care duties, teaching, particularly medical student teaching, has assumed a ve...