HOLD THE DATE
2011 Surgical Education Week
March 22-26, 2011
Sheraton Boston Hotel. Boston, MA USA 

Future Dates

2012 - March 20-24, 2012, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego, CA
2013 - April 23-27, 2013, Gaylord Palms, Orlando, FL

A CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Call for Abstracts for the Year 2011 Meeting is underway. The deadline for the Call for Abstracts is October 15, 2010 for the 2011 meeting.

Selected papers from the meeting are submitted to The American Journal of Surgery, the official journal of the Association for Surgical Education.

If you are interested in submitting a paper to the Association of Program Directors in Surgery, please go to their website for submission instructions: www.apds.org.

THINKING OUT OF THE BOX LUNCH

At lunch during the joint day (Thursday, March 24, 2011) of the 2011 Surgical Education Week, the ASE Curriculum Committee will again sponsor a forum for the brief presentation of creative ideas which are educationally sound, but which may not have undergone rigorous evaluation of efficacy. We are seeking presentations not only about creative teaching methods but also about faculty development, information technology and assessment and evaluation.

The idea is to have members share creative ideas that have worked for them. As the forum will be at the "unassigned" lunch hour, a box-lunch will be provided at a nominal cost. The Committee calls this forum the THINKING OUT OF THE BOX LUNCH.

We are now soliciting ideas for presentation at the 8th annual rendition. A special abstract form for this forum is attached. We request abstract submissions by December 15, 2010 in order to gauge the amount of interest and give all authors an opportunity to prepare. Abstracts accepted will be presented from the podium during lunch. PowerPoint slides may be presented but will need to be submitted well in advance.

A subcommittee of the Curriculum Committee will review submitted abstracts. Within our time constraints, we will accept as many submissions as possible. Presenters will be expected to produce a fact sheet for their presentation so that each attendee may have further references or contacts should they wish to adopt the idea. Please note the request to include your presentation on the members-only area of our web site after the meeting. On behalf of the Curriculum Committee, we look forward to your submission of creative teaching methods.

Rebecca Evangelista, MD, Chair, Curriculum Committee

The 2010 Association for Surgical Education
HAEMONETICS BEST PAPER

The ASE Program Committee is pleased to announce that the following papers from the 2010 Annual Meeting were chosen as Papers of Distinction.

Is Professionalism a Strictly Linear Construct? Implications for Evaluation in Contemporary Surgical Residency

     Gauger, Stansfield, Hamstra, and Gruppen.

Simulator Training to Automaticity Leads to Improved Skill Transfer Compared to Traditional Proficiency-based Training

     Stefanidis, Acker, Montero, Prabhu, Smith, and Scerbo.

Staying out of Trouble in the Operating room: Remaining Attentive in Automaticity

     Moulton, Regher, Lingard, Merritt, and MacRae.

Congratulations to the presenters and authors!

The following are a selection of papers from the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) that were presented at the 2010 Surgical Education Week, joint meeting of the ASE and the Association of Program Directors in Surgery.

 
We hope that those who were unable to attend the meeting find them beneficial and informative.

Pre-Implementation Predictors of Website Use: Preliminary Findings from the Evaluation of the SCORE Portal Pilot Study

Development of the Global Operative Assessment of Laparoscopic Skills - Groin Hernia (GOALS-GH). Delivered here in two slide decks.

Performance of Simulated Laparoscopic Incisional Hernia Repair Correlates with Operating Room Performance

Results of an OSPRE and Non-Cognitive Attributes Assessment Following a R-1 Surgical Skills and Multi-competencies Curriculum

Cheap & Effective Way to Improve Learning: or Multimedia (MM) Principles Applied to PPT

A Clinical Curriculum Evaluation System That Promotes Ownership, Accountability, and Quality Improvements

Teaching and Assessing Intra-operative Decision Making: A critical evaluation of two theoretically based approaches

Evaluation of Distributed Practice Schedules on Retention of a Newly Acquired Surgical Skill: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Design and implementation of a prospective randomized trial to improve resident operative performance: Utility of a simulation-based endovascular curriculum

A Qualitative Exploration of Intraoperative Teaching Using Surgical Resident Focus Groups

Simulator Training to Automaticity Leads to Improved Skill Transfer Compared to Traditional Proficiency-based Training

Honing a Surgeon’s Decision Making Skills in the Presence of Mechanical Tasks

Operative Anatomy for Senior Medical Students

Video Review Improves Team Function in High-Fidelity Simulated Trauma Resuscitation

The Benefit of a Targeted Intervention to Improve the Transition to Surgical Residency

AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS
Residency Assist Page (RAP)

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) offers a medium for program directors to acquire updates and advice on topics relevant to their needs as educational program administrators and teachers. The goals are to offer practical information and approaches from summaries of published articles, invited editorials, and specific descriptions of lessons learned from program directors? successful and not-so-successful strategies. Through the development of RAP, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) intends to support program directors and faculty by providing succinctly presented information helpful in addressing the challenges associated with administering state-of-art residency education.

Visit their website for more details.  >> www.facs.org/education/rap/index.html