Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties
Description
This pragmatic book is a guide for the use of simulation in surgery and surgical subspecialties, including general surgery, urology, gynecology, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, orthopedics, ophthalmology, and otolaryngology. It offers evidence-based recommendations for the application of simulation in surgery and addresses procedural skills training, clinical decision-making and team training, and discusses the future of surgical simulation. Readers are introduced to the different simulation modalities and technologies used in surgery with a variety of learners including students, residents, practicing surgeons, and other health-related professionals.
Reviews / Votes
"The book 'aims to present the reader with the best available evidence and methods for effective training and assessment in surgery.to provide readers with information easy to adopt and replicate and/or tailor for their respective environment.' The book succeeds admirably in this important and worthy purpose. . This is a unique resource that will fill a growing need. It will be welcomed by surgical educators and those who work in simulation centers." (Carol Scott-Conner, Doody's Book Reviews, June 14, 2019)
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Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD
Vice Chair of Education, Chief MIS/ Bariatric Surgery
Indiana University
School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Indianapolis, IN
USA
James R. Korndorffer, Jr., MD, MHPE
Vice Chair of Education
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of SurgeryStanford, CA
USA
Robert Sweet, MD, FACS
Executive Director WISH and CREST
Medical Director Kidney Stone Clinic
Professor Urology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
USA