Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties

PART I. INTRODUCTION TO SURGICAL SIMULATION

1. Historical Perspective
2. Overview of Simulation in Surgery
3. A Taxonomy Guide for Surgical Simulation
4. Principles of Validity
5. Equipping and Staffing a Surgical Simulation Center
6. Funding Models for a Surgical Simulation Center

PART II: PROCEDURAL SIMULATION

7. Outcome-based Training and the Role of Simulation
8. Skill Maintenance, Remediation, and Reentry
9. Performance Assessment
10. Performance Optimization
11. Use of Simulation in High-Stakes Summative Assessments in Surgery

PART III: SIMULATION FOR NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS

12. Making It Stick: Keys to Effective Feedback and Debriefing in Surgical Education
13. The Science and Training of Expert Operating Room Teams
14. Human Factors Psychology in Surgery

PART IV. SUBSPECIALTIES OF SURGERY - STATE OF THE ART

15. Simulation in General Surgery
16. Simulation in Laparoscopic Surgery
17. Simulation in Robotic Surgery
18. Simulation in Surgical Endoscopy
19. Simulation in Surgical Oncology and Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery
20. Simulation in Bariatric Surgery
21. Simulation in Critical Care
22. Simulation in Cardiothoracic Surgery
23. Simulation in Otolarygology
24. Simulation in Urology
25. Simulation in Ophthalmology
26. Simulation in Vascular Surgery
27. Simulation in Transplant Surgery
28. Simulation in Plastic Surgery
29. Simulation in Orthopaedic Surgery
30. Simulation in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Part V. CONCLUSION

31. The Future of Surgical Simulation

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.

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 Surgery
Stanford, CA
USA

Robert Sweet, MD, FACS
Executive Director WISH and CREST
Medical Director Kidney Stone Clinic
Professor Urology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
USA