The Educational Clearinghouse of the ASE was established in September, 1983 and is based at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. The Clearinghouse serves the 
traditional function of being a repository for surgical education materials. It collects and distributes information and materials related to numerous topics in surgical education: curriculum models, teaching interventions, performance evaluation techniques and instruments, faculty development materials, and instructional materials such as videotapes and resource books.
#01.001 Manual of Surgical Objectives, 4th Edition.
Completely revised and designed to help students navigate through their surgery clerkship. Contains 27 objectives that are symptom/problem based. 1998
#01.013 Surgical Anatomy for Medical Students. This study guide is a review of human anatomy from a surgeon's perspective. It will prepare the student to understand the steps of a specific procedure as well as the potential anatomical complications of it. J. Osuch, M.D. et al., Michigan State University, 1992.
Price: $12.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#01.015 Surgical Educators' Handbook. Developed by the ASE Curriculum Committee, this handbook was written by surgical educators for surgeons, residents and all others dealing with surgical education. Designed in a case-based format, the editors compiled a set of FAQs that were answered by the contributors. These were grouped into sections on Faculty Development, Research in Education, Essentials for Residency Program Directors, Student & Resident Assessment, Essentials for Clerkship Directors and Curriculum/Teaching. All chapters are followed by references and/or resources. 176 pp., 2002.
#01.016 The Virtual Patient: A Self-directed Study Guide in Surgery 2006, curriculum materials for medical students. This is a case-based study
guide for medical students. The initial concept for this arose from the
Manual of Surgical Objectives/ prepared by the ASE Curriculum Committee to guide small group interactions. This expanded version has additional cases (a total of 86 cases) and almost 200 additional illustrations and images. Links to the case history, learning objectives, radiology images, and illustrations allow easy navigation.
These CDs may not be reproduced and can be used for self-study by
individual students. A licensed copy may be obtained from
UT Southwestern Medical Center after completion of a license agreement.
The material may then be placed on an institution's web site for access
by students. In addition a facilitator's manual may be purchased to
guide faculty using the curriculum materials in small group teaching.
This 404-page manual contains the clinical cases, learning objectives,
student questions, thumbnails of the illustrations and images,
and prompters to guide the leader. The cost is $100. These are being
printed at UT Southwestern on order only. *
*If interested in a licensed copy or facilitator's manuals, please
contact rebekah.naylor@utsouthwestern.edu
CD Rom, R. Naylor, MD, Editor, P. Bergen, MD, Clerkship Director, and
Surgery Faculty, UT-Southwestern.
Price: $30.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy/CD
#01.017 Surgical Simulation: Box-Trainer to the Human Simulator. This DVD set is a recording of the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Simulation Committee Workshop “The Current Status and Future of Surgical Simulation: From the Box-Trainer to the Human Simulator” and provides guidelines for running a successful skills laboratory, for implementing effective skills curricula and augmenting them, for incorporating patient simulation and team training into the surgery curriculum. The Educational Institute requirements of the American College of Surgeons are referenced, the modules of the APDS national skills curriculum are presented and the resources and personnel needed are identified.
Objectives:
- to identify the needs of a skills center/ lab, provide suggestions for its success and address the Educational Institute requirements of the ACS
- to present the APDS national skills curriculum modules, address their strengths and weaknesses, and identify the resources needed for their implementation
- to explore the important elements of a simulator skills curriculum and provide evidence-based guidelines for effective proficiency-based training
- to discuss the principles of team training and provide guidelines for implementation
- to provide insight into future directions of simulation, skills training and research
The DVD is divided in two 90 minute sessions, one focusing on procedural skills and one on patient simulation and team training. Target audience includes surgeons and other health care providers interested in simulation. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts in the field and exchange ideas. At the end of this workshop, the newly acquired knowledge will allow participants to improve their skills laboratories and develop effective simulator curricula for their residents and students.
Faculty include:
Shawn T. Tsuda, MD
James R. Korndorffer, Jr, MD
Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD
Gary L. Dunnington, MD
Daniel J. Scott, MD
Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS
Gerald M. Fried, MD, FRCSC
Russell D. Dumire, MD
Kinga Powers, MD, PhD
Giselle G. Hamad, MD
Nancy J. Hogle, BSN, RN
James S. Gregory, MD
John T. Paige, MD
Neal E. Seymour, MD
Stefanidis, MD, PhD, Scott, MD, Jones, MD, 2009.
This DVD set can be ordered directly from Cine-Med at http://cine-med.com/index.php?nav=surgery&id=ASE100.
Price: $39.95
#01.018 Surgery 101 Podcasts. This is a series of 10-15 minute podcasts intended for use by medical students during their Surgery clerkships. These were presented as a workshop at the 2009 ASE Annual Meeting. Topics covered include:
- Appendicitis
- Hernias
- Gallstones
- Bowel obstruction
- Colon cancer
- Breast cancer
- GI bleeding
- Thyroid masses
- Trauma
We plan to expand the series to cover other topics in General Surgery and Specialty Surgery.
Podcasts can be downloaded for free at 'Surgery 101' podcasts on the iTunes Music Store (requires iTunes).
All podcasts are provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License (http://creativecommons.org).
J White, MD P Boora, MD, University of Alberta, 2009
#02.003 Guide for Researchers in Surgical Education
This guide is designed to meet the needs of those who work among surgeons and surgical trainees, who embrace the scientific method in their quest to improve the educational process. In addition to content on research design, execution, and analysis, the book also includes information on various types of research design, and use of simulation in surgical education research. There is also a chapter on one of the most important topics involving educational research - funding. Jeannette Capella, MD, MEd, Steven J. Kasten, MD, Susan Steinemann, MD, Laura Torbeck, PhD, 238 pp, 2010. $25.00
This can be ordered directly through Cine-Med at 800-253-7657 or at www.cine-med.com.
#03.008 The Objective Structured Clinical Examination Written by the ASE Testing and Evaluation Committee, this second edition's objective is to summarize the state-of-the-art in the use of the OSCE in the United States and Canada. The manual provides an overview of how to develop and administer an OSCE, how to provide early feed back and a discussion on measurement considerations. 116 pp., 2001. $10.00
Price: $10.00 •Delivered via email as PDF file
#04.002 Teaching Dossier Developed by the ASE Faculty Development Committee, the dossier provides faculty members with an organized approach for documenting educationally-related activities. 1989.
Price: $4.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#04.007 Instructor's Guide for Teaching Residents to Teach This updated package is designed to help program directors or educators plan, deliver, and evaluate a teaching residents to teach program. The purpose of the program is to equip residency program directors with instructional materials to help residents hone their teaching skills. The topics and skills included do not represent an exhaustive list of teaching skills for residents but rather a "start-up" package of basic teaching skills.
The six modules provided include:
- Module 1: Microskills of Teaching
- Module 2: Adult Learning Principles Applied to Clinical Teaching
- Module 3: Feedback Skills
- Module 4: Teaching Psychomotor Skills
- Module 5: Teaching in the Ambulatory Setting
- Module 6: Chief Resident as Manager
Each Module contains a teaching plan, handouts, and audiovisual materials including a PowerPoint slide presentation, Models for Teaching in the Outpatient Clinic videotape and Residents as Teachers videotape.
The Instructor's Guide provides a description of the course principles, ideas for integration into a residency program, and tips for starting the session, keeping the momentum going during the session, and ending the session. Sample evaluation forms are provided, as well as a form that can be used to assess your residents' learning needs relevant to teaching skills. D.DaRosa, G. Dunnington, 2001.
Price: $120.00 •Shipped as traditional print/media (see above).
#04.008 Models for Teaching in the Outpatient Setting This CD presents four models for teaching in the ambulatory setting. There are advantages and disadvantages to each model from a learning standpoint. This videotape was developed to be used as a trigger tape during a faculty development session on Teaching in the Clinic. Facilitators can engage learners in brainstorming sessions by discussing the pros and cons of each model and then highlighting how each can be used to balance the patient care responsibilities with meeting the learning needs of students and residents. D. DaRosa, G. Dunnington, 2001
Price: $15.00 •Shipped as traditional media.
#04.009 Surgery Resident's Teaching Casebook An informal handbook designed to provide advice for senior residents regarding their teaching of medical students in the surgical clerkship. K. Ephgrave, U of Iowa, 1998.
Price: $8.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#04.012 Teaching and Learning in Medical and Surgical Education This comprehensive volume features a review of the major topics in medical and surgical education by today's leading authorities in the field. Each chapter provides a state-of-the-art overview of the topic along with projected changes most likely to occur over the next decade. A "must have" for anyone responsible for educating students, residents and physicians in the medical and surgical fields. 343 pp., Distlehorst, Ph.D., Dunnington, M.D., & Folse, M.D. Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, Inc. 2000.
Price: $70.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#04.013 Nurses in Surgical Education Reference Manual This manual was developed by the ASE Nurses in Surgical Education Committee for departmental chairs and clerkship directors who are interested in incorporating nurses to assist faculty with medical/surgical education. It includes educational roles of nurses within surgical education; rank, tenure and promotion issues; minimal qualifications, salary ranges, etc. 19 pp., Leeper, et al. 2003.
#04.014 Manual on Preparing Surgical Case Reports for Presentation or PublicationThis manual is to help surgeons write a case report. It covers general goals, common types and basic format of a case report. It also includes specific information on each section of a case report and a sub-section on common problems. There is a list of references as well as four appendices that provide additional assistance in case report development. 28 pages. W. Paine, Ph.D., Mercy Health System, 2003.
#04.015 Conquering the Competencies Challenges - the SOAP ApproachThe AAMC-Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) sponsored the development of a set of two workshop modules entitled "Conquering the Competencies Challenges - the SOAP Approach" that are contained on a CD-ROM and are designed to enhance faculty and residency program directors' abilities to effectively and efficiently address and assess the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education's (ACGME) six core competencies.
The purpose of the modules is to provide residency educators and faculty with a common language and approach to the design and assessment of competency-based medical education. The module authors adapted the SOAP acronym to frame the design/assessment process:
- Study current teaching/assessment measures relative to ACGME competencies
- Objectify assessment process by adopting/adapting available measures or creating new measures
- Audit: Tune up system and revise, as needed, based on evidence
- Plan: Infrastructure and resource issues associated with competency-based education
Two ready-to-use teaching modules designed to enhance faculty's understanding and ability to systematically design and evaluate residency education are provided on the CD. Each module was designed to utilize the modified SOAP format to teach about designing competency-based education. However, each module is targeted to different audiences.
- Module 1 is intended for a general faculty audience and can be presented in approximately 40 minutes with time for questions/discussion.
- Module 2 is intended for individuals who have primary responsibility for residency education including residency program directors, curriculum/assessment committee members, and coordinators. It is organized to run approximately two hours using a combination of lecture and interactive exercises built to equip participants with an individualized teaching and assessment blueprint and associated action steps.
CD Contents - Instructor Materials
The CD includes a complete set of instructor resources to use (and/or adapt) for each module. The resources include:
- A set of PowerPoint slides with associated speaker notes, visuals and video clips to highlight key points and provide illuminating examples;
- Participant Handouts;
- Participant Evaluation form; and
- References.
CD Rom, D.DaRosa, Ph.D., D. Simpson, Ph.D., L. Perkowski, Ph.D., 2004.
Price: $5.00 •Shipped as traditional media (see above).
#04.017 Manual on Efficiently Writing Competitive Research Abstracts for Surgical Journals This brief manual is designed to assist in efficiently creating and revising a quality research abstract for a conference or a publication. It is designed to help effectively use a minimum number of words to summarize:
- Why a clinical or research issue is important
- How you investigated that issue
- The main results of that investigation, and
- Your interpretation of those results.
To do this, the manual covers the following main topics:
- The functions of an abstract
- Basic types of abstracts
- Parts of the abstract
- Avoiding some common problems
- Writing an abstract
- Increasing the probability of acceptance
There are two Appendices that help to facilitate the generation and evaluation by peers of a quality research abstract: Appendix A, Form for Writing a First Draft and Appendix B, Checklist for Evaluating a Research Abstract.
20 pages. by W. Paine, Ph.D., Chris Tzarnas, M.D., et al., Mercy Catholic Medical Center, Darby, PA, 2005.
#04.018 Teaching Portfolio This brief paper provides faculty members with an organized approach for documenting educationally-related activities effort and effectiveness.
The Portfolio has four sections:
- Reflective Statement
- Introductory Statement
- Material representative of teaching practices
- Appendix: Evaluative material
5 pages. by Hilary Sanfey, MD, University of Virginia, 2006.
#04.020 Faculty Development Package for Intra-operative Teaching These materials are based on a workshop that the ASE Faculty Development Committee held at a recent ASE Annual Meeting. Included are videos and materials to develop a local workshop at your institution. The package includes all the components to successfully launch a faculty development workshop on intra-operative teaching. There are 6 video scenarios on DVD as well as files that include an overall description, facilitator guide, generic grant application and generic slides that are on CD. 2008.
Price: $20.00 •Shipped as traditional media
#06.008 Collaborative Clinical Education This handbook is a step-by-step approach to collaborative clinical teaching in a clear and logical manner. It is divided into four sections that cover planning, preparing, implementing and evaluating clinical teaching. 432pp., J. Westberg, Ph.D., H. Jason, M.D., Ed.D., Springer Publishing Co., 1992.
Price: $50.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.011Pocket Mentor: A Manual for Surgical Interns and Residents: 2001 Contributions from more than 20 women surgeons provide advice on getting work done efficiently, social and gender issues, succeeding as a surgical resident, etc. J. Majure, M.D., Ed., Association of Women Surgeons.
Price: $5.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.016 Practice-Based Learning: Problem-Based Learning Applied to Medical Education A complete resource for problem-based learning that includes topics on conversion, assessment, evaluation, etc. H. Barrows, M.D., SIU School of Medicine, 1994.
Price: $23.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.017The Tutorial Process This handbook shows tutors how to facilitate learning, encourage students to become interactive, help them improve their thinking, plus covers topic to improve the skills of the educational coach. H. Barrows, SIU School of Medicine, 1992.
Price: $15.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.018What Your Tutor May Never Tell You; The Medical Student's Guide to Problem-Based Learning Created to put the medical student in better control of the PBL process by understanding each step and working with the tutor to maximize the learning process. H. Barrows, SIU School of Medicine, 1996.
Price: $12.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.020Guide for Planning for Promotion and Tenure and Professional Career Development Contains four sections designed to assist with promotions, appointments, information on documenting academic activities and scholarships, and tips for achieving academic advancement. P. Morahan, Ph.D., Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, 1995.
Price: $6.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.022Teaching and Learning in Medical Practice Edited by a consultant who is also a specialist in education, this book seeks to provide professionals involved in medical education with an excellent background to the educational process. A valuable professional resource for medical educators and residents. 256 pp., JWR Peyton, M.D. Manticore Publishers, 1998.
Must be ordered directly from the following web site:
http://www.jwrodneypeyton.com
#06.023Fostering Reflection and Providing Feedback: Helping Others Learn from Experience The authors of this book provide and carefully explain the steps to take when fostering reflection and providing feedback. With multiple, real-world examples, they guide readers who want to help their students become reflective practitioners who are life-long learners. The layout of the book and the many checklists make it easy for busy educators to read appropriate sections when needed and to return for targeted reviews as they progressively enhance their skills in these vital areas.
Content topics include: Why Foster Reflection? Why is Constructive Feedback Important? Why are Reflection and Feedback Avoided or Done Poorly? Preparing Yourself and Your Learners, Fostering Reflection, Providing Feedback Effectively, Helping Learners Reflect with and Give Feedback to Each Other, Helping Learners Elicit Feedback from Patients. 120 pp., Jane Westberg, Ph.D., with Hilliard Jason, M.D., Ed.D., Springer Publishing Co., 2001.
Price: $21.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.024Residents’ Teaching Skills This is a must-read for residency program directors, chief residents and medical leaders just beginning to develop a program as well as for ongoing programs. AAMC President Jordan Cohen states in his forward, “. . an impressive array of practical materials that will guide any academic medical center in the development a more focused approach to ‘teaching the teachers.’ From learning theory and program development to teaching performance evaluation and specialty-specific materials, Residents’ Teaching Skills covers all the bases.”
The book is divided into two sections: Part 1, Information and Ideas, and Part 2, Materials for the Teaching-Skills Programs. 272 pp., Janine C. Edwards, Ph.D., Joan A. Friedland, M.D., M.P.H., Robert Bing-You, M.D., M.Ed., Springer Publishing Co., 2002.
Price: $30.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.025Medical Teaching in Ambulatory Care, 2nd Edition This is a completely updated and extensively references new edition of the practical hands-on resource that demonstrates the effective use of any ambulatory setting in medical education. The authors investigate the tools needed from a theoretical framework for teaching, in addition to essential teaching skills, dealing with difficult trainees, setting up a private practice as a setting for teaching, and more. The text provides pragmatic examples of real situations with specific strategies for addressing each.
The six topics of content are: Learning and Teaching in Ambulatory Care,Teaching Skills in Ambulatory Care, Setting up the Office for Teaching, Strategies to Use During the Teaching Day, Special Learning Situations, and Evaluation. 156 pp., Warren Rubenstein, M.D., Yves Talbot, M.D., Springer Publishing Co., 2003.
Price: $25.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.026Orthopaedic Intern Pocket Survival Guide This booklet is one of the most popular intern series. Designed so that an orthopaedic intern can glean details of surviving the dreaded fracture conference, provide reminders of routine orthopaedic orders, and the most helpful summaries of common operative dictations. This is very popular with surgical residents and medical students alike. 82 pp., 2003.
Price: $12.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.027ICU Intern Pocket Survival Guide This booklet shows how to approach the patient from the multi-organ point of view. It helps the intern to review issues of impaction, bed sores and routine things that do not automatically seem so routine. 74 pp., 2003.
Price: $12.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.028Surgeon's Guide to Treatment of Commonly Encountered Infections This handbook serves as a safe guide and effective way to prescribe antibiotics in surgical patients. It covers antibiotic choices and antiobiotic evaluation by class as well as dosing considerations for various conditions. 38 pp., 2003.
Price: $8.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.029ACLS Pocket Survival Guide This guide is a concise intellectually-ergonomic approach to the American Heart Association resuscitation criteria. The book is not a text, but a reminder of what physicians and other healthcare providers have committed to memory. 66 pp., 2001.
Price: $10.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.030Surgical Intern Pocket Survival Guide This booklet is a well-organized basic guide for a new surgical intern, starting with admissions (H&P, exam, labs, x-rays, orders), through all pre-op steps, and the operative procedure. It continues with Post-op steps, possible problems and complications, through discharge summaries. 74 pp., 2001.
Price: $12.00 •Shipped as traditional hard copy
#06.031Guidebook for Clerkship Directors, 3rd Edition, Alliance for Clinical Education. The updated version of this guidebook contains six new chapters and 68 different authors. It provides a single, easily readable, and practical resource of information for new and seasoned clerkship directors in all disciplines. The book includes expanded and updated chapters on topics including curriculum, teaching methods, use of technology in clerkships, evaluation and grading, program evaluation, working with students, and faculty development. New chapters include preparing for LCME accreditation site visits, career development, educational scholarship, clerkship orientation and the role of clerkship administrators. Electronic format or hard copies can be ordered directly from their website at:
http://www.allianceforclinicaleducation.org/frmGuidebookOrder.pdf 2005
#06.032 Clinical Anatomy. Clinical Anatomy (the Official Journal of the American Association of Clinical Anatomists and the British Association of Clinical Anatomists) is available to ASE members at a substantial discount. Clinical Anatomy provides a forum for the exchange of current information between anatomists and clinicians. The journal embraces anatomy in all its aspects as applied to medical practice on a global scale. Clinical Anatomy also assists physicians in keeping abreast of new methodologies for patient management and informs educators of new developments in clinical anatomy and teaching techniques.
2006 subscription rates are $140 US, Canada and Mexico; $180 for all other countries. Subscriptions can be placed by contacting Customer Service, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 800-825-7550 (US only), 201-748-6645 or 44-1243-779-777; email: cs-journals@wiley.co.uk.
#06.033 A Practical Guide for Medical Teachers, 2nd Edition. Significant changes have recently occurred in both healthcare delivery and in the context and methods in which medicine is taught and learned. At the same time changes in the content and style of delivery of medical education have made it harder for established clinicians to teach in the style to which they were previously accustomed. The Second Edition of this book attempts to bridge the gap between the theoretical aspects of medical education, and its attendant jargon, and the practical delivery of enthusiastic teaching. It will be of great assistance to clinicians especially, and other healthcare teachers in general, in their understanding of contemporary educational principles and will provide practical help for them in the delivery of the variety of teaching situations which characterize present day curricula. 448 pp., 75 ills., John Dent, MD and Ronald Harden, MD, FRCP(Glas), FRPC, FRCSEd. Reviewed in FOCUS, Vol. 23, #4, p. 22.
This publication can be ordered directly from Elsevier either through their website, www.us.elsevierhealth.com or by calling 800-545-2522. ISBN #0443100837. Price $75.95
#06.034 Intuition and Metacognition in Medical Education; Keys to Developing Expertise. Written for medical educators-from medical school faculty to the most self-reflective residents-this book will teach students and interns how to extrapolate lessons from experience and integrate learning and practice. It will help them to think more clearly and thoroughly about what they read, hear, and learn on a day-to-day basis and thus become more informed and humanistic doctors.
Chapter Titles include: An Emerging Paradigm for Medical Education, Developing Expertise as the Aim of Medical Education, Metacognitive Capabilities, The Role of Intuition, Clinical Expertise: A Blend of Intuition and Metacognition, Clinical Problem-solving, Communication and the Physician-Patient Relationship, Professionalism Teaching Expertise, Self-Directed Learning Strategies, Planning and Controlling the Learning Process, A New Curricular Paradigm for Medical Education.
151 pp., Mark Quirk, EdD, Springer Publishing, 2006.
This publication can be ordered directly from Springer Publishing at www.springerpub.com. ISBN #0-8261-0213-1. Price $45.00.
#06.035 Coaching Standardized Patients for Use in the Assessment of Clinical Competence. In today's medical education curriculum it is necessary for students to learn the proper techniques for taking medical histories, performing physical exams, and the appropriate way to educate and inform patients. The best way for a student to learn these skills is through hands-on training with a Standardized Patient (SP). This type of training allows students to grasp concepts more quickly and enables faculty physicians to directly observe student's progress and asses their need for further instruction.
As with any tool that is used for teaching, assessment, and certification, it is easier to provide the best service when there are general guidelines for preparers to follow. This handbook is intended as that guide and as a support for those who are involved in training Standardized Patients, from the art of coaching through preparing SP's for the physical exam, to encourage each coach to develop a system that will deliver the best results and, in the end, help train the most competent doctors.
The book is divided into two sections: Coaching Competencies: Developing the Skill Sets Needed for Coaching Standardized Patients and Training Procedures: Finding and Training the Standardized Patients
352 pp., Peggy Wallace, PhD, Springer Publishing, 2006.
This publication can be ordered directly from Springer Publishing at www.springerpub.com. ISBN #0-8261-0224-7. Price $60.00
#06.036 Selected Readings in General Surgery (SRGS) Published eight times a year in print, online, or CD-ROM, SRGS is a unique surgical education resource. It provides convenience by eliminating unnecessary articles and the need to search the literature. An in-depth, topic-specific analysis of the surgical literature and selected full-text articles come in one convenient publication. An optional continuing medical education (CME) program can be used to satisfy requirements for maintenance of certification, licensure, and privileges.
Must be ordered directly from the publisher’s website, http://www.facs.org/srgs/.
