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General Surgery Categorical

    General Surgery-Categorical Home » Introduction to Surgical Education » General Surgery Categorical Introduction Residency Programs Cardiothoracic Surgery-Integrated & 4/3 Programs General Surgery-Categorical Plastic Surgery-Integrated Preliminary Surgery Vascular Surgery-Integrated Fellowship Programs Abdominal Transplant Surgery Advanced Gastrointestinal Minimally Invasive Surgery/ Foregut Cardiothoracic Surgery-Traditional Cardiothoracic Transplant/MCS Cardiovascular Surgical Critical Care Congenital Cardiac Surgery Craniofacial Surgery Hand…

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DOS_RR_Full_2009

[…] from the Field The CDC and National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis- tration (NHSTA) have asked me to chair a diverse working group of individuals representing health care providers from emergency medicine, prehospital care, surgical care, and bioengineering to revise, disseminate, and implement national guidelines for the triage of injured patients from the field. This […]

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DOS_RR_Full_2011

[…] causal factors in patient-related errors and in the likelihood  that a patient will seek legal retribution. Simulation  provides a rich opportunity to learn and practice these vital  communication skills. Fifth, practicing medical professionals should continuously  retrain  throughout their professional lives, embracing the  philosophy of lifelong learning. This is evidenced in the  requirement for Maintenance of Certifi cation mandated  by the American Board of Medical Specialties for all its  boards. Furthermore, military deployments for prolonged  periods, temporary absence from work for social, personal  or family reasons, and the advent of new procedures/ technology which keep the health care professional away  from the regular practice of medicine for a prolonged  period require retraining. Patient safety and quality of  care are improved when practicing professionals regularly  demonstrate profi ciency in technical, cognitive and systems  skills in a controlled virtual environment, both for new  skills and for select skills they may commonly employ in  their practice. Practitioners may also hone technical and  cognitive skills for patient  scenarios they rarely encounter  in their practice , but must be able to recognize and respond  to appropriately. ISIS will provide educational opportunities  for practicing health care  providers to acquire new skills and  to validate competency in select existing skills.  Sixth, simulation technologies are now moving into the  clinical arena through  in situ  training in actual emergency  in situ  training in actual emergency  in situ rooms, ICU and operating rooms to improve performance  and effi ciency in the actual clinical setting. Next generation  simulators will permit “surgical rehearsal,” allowing a  physician to practice an operation on the patient-specifi c  image before performing the procedure on a patient.  Evidence indicates that “warming up” before a procedure  improves performance by decreasing operating time and  errors. Data from these and other clinical uses of simulation  will feed into quality improvement, risk management,  privileging and patient safety committees to improve quality  of care while reducing cost. Research Imperative As a Research Center in U W Medicine, ISIS is part of one  of the top funded academic medical research institutions  in the country, with a solid demonstration of collaboration  across disciplines and in partnership with other U W world  […]

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DOS_RR_Full_2011

[…] causal factors in patient-related errors and in the likelihood  that a patient will seek legal retribution. Simulation  provides a rich opportunity to learn and practice these vital  communication skills. Fifth, practicing medical professionals should continuously  retrain  throughout their professional lives, embracing the  philosophy of lifelong learning. This is evidenced in the  requirement for Maintenance of Certifi cation mandated  by the American Board of Medical Specialties for all its  boards. Furthermore, military deployments for prolonged  periods, temporary absence from work for social, personal  or family reasons, and the advent of new procedures/ technology which keep the health care professional away  from the regular practice of medicine for a prolonged  period require retraining. Patient safety and quality of  care are improved when practicing professionals regularly  demonstrate profi ciency in technical, cognitive and systems  skills in a controlled virtual environment, both for new  skills and for select skills they may commonly employ in  their practice. Practitioners may also hone technical and  cognitive skills for patient  scenarios they rarely encounter  in their practice , but must be able to recognize and respond  to appropriately. ISIS will provide educational opportunities  for practicing health care  providers to acquire new skills and  to validate competency in select existing skills.  Sixth, simulation technologies are now moving into the  clinical arena through  in situ  training in actual emergency  in situ  training in actual emergency  in situ rooms, ICU and operating rooms to improve performance  and effi ciency in the actual clinical setting. Next generation  simulators will permit “surgical rehearsal,” allowing a  physician to practice an operation on the patient-specifi c  image before performing the procedure on a patient.  Evidence indicates that “warming up” before a procedure  improves performance by decreasing operating time and  errors. Data from these and other clinical uses of simulation  will feed into quality improvement, risk management,  privileging and patient safety committees to improve quality  of care while reducing cost. Research Imperative As a Research Center in U W Medicine, ISIS is part of one  of the top funded academic medical research institutions  in the country, with a solid demonstration of collaboration  across disciplines and in partnership with other U W world  […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Fall 2021

[…] Medicine Program. His research interests center on anorectal malformations, continuous process improvement, and quality. Dr. Avansino is a member of Colorectal Team Overseas that provides education to providers and surgical care to children with pediatric colorectal anomalies. In addition, he is on the medical board of directors for the Pull-Through Network, co-Chair for the […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Summer/Fall 2020

[…] Wisconsin with the opportunity to work with the pediatric surgeons at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and the longitudinal collaborations they have developed with pediatric surgical care providers in Peru. She took three years away from formal clinical training to complete a global surgery fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and Master of Public Health […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Summer 2023

[…] tools as they are incorporated into our learning environment, such as the SIMPL app which uses assessment data to improve how we train the next generation of providers. Thousands of faculty and trainees have used the SIMPL assessment toolkit to improve assessment and feedback. At the same time, the SIMPL collaborative network has used […]

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Surgery Synopsis – Winter 2021/2022

[…] part, by an operationally advantageous method of resuscitation that can be done by patients themselves, their family or friends, lay and medical first responders, and by hospital-based providers. Enteral resuscitation – drinking fluid or having it administered through a nasogastric tube – is simple, operationally advantageous, safe and has proven efficacy for large volume […]

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