Surgical Simulation
by
Prokar Dasgupta (Editor); Kamran Ahmed (Editor); Peter Jaye (Editor); Mohammed Shamim Khan (Editor)
ISBN: 9781783081561
Publication Date: 2014-01-15
The traditional residency training paradigm established by Dr William Halsted placed a strong emphasis on structured apprenticeships, with trainees developing surgical expertise in a supervised clinical setting over a prolonged training period consisting of increasing levels of responsibility (1). However, the current surgical landscape has required significant modifications to this model, including the development of specific learning objectives outside of the clinical setting and an increased utilisation of simulation-based educational strategies. This repetitive practice of difficult surgical skills in a risk-free environment away from the patient provides the trainee with immediate feedback and the opportunity to train to a predetermined expert proficiency, and seems intuitively, therefore, more efficacious and efficient for both the patient and the healthcare system. This type of surgical education both allows trainees to meet the learning objectives necessary to achieve surgical competency and ensures that they and their surgical educators are able to focus on the development of surgical judgement during the OR experience.