Center for Excellence in Surgical
Education, Research and Training
:: Grants Awarded
| Title of Proposal | Institution | Principal Investigator |
| Are Advanced Laparoscopic Skills for Senior Residents Learned in a Short Training Course and Transferred to Operations? | University of Toronto | Helen MacRae, M.D. |
| Cognitive Task Analysis for Teaching Technical Skills in an Inanimate Surgical Skills Laborataory | University of Southern California | George Velmahos, M.D. |
| How Accurate is Self-Assessment of Technical Skill, and does Self-Assessment Improve by Evaluating Peers’ Performance? | University of Toronto | Helen MacRae, M.D. |
| Developing Research-based Video Cases to Teach Novices to Recognize, Interpret and Resolve Tension in OR Team Communication: A Multidisciplinary Education Initiative | University of Toronto | Lorelei Lingard, Ph.D. |
| Human Performance Capacity Profiles and Their Relationship to Laparoscopic Surgical Performance: Evaluation of Medical Students, Surgical Residents and Staff Physicians | University of Texas-SW | Jeffrey Cadeddu, M.D. |
| Development and Evaluation of a Model for Teaching Surgical Skills and Judgment | Northwestern University | Debra DaRosa, Ph.D. |
| Cortical Mapping of Surgical Residents on Tasks of Surgical Skill and Mental Rotations | University of Toronto | Kyle Wanzel, M.D. |
| A Study of Information Transfer and Communication Practices Among Surgeons When Transferring Responsibility for Patient Care | Southern Illinois University | Reed Williams, Ph.D. |
| Recognizing the Affective Component within Surgical Learning: a Safety-Centered Intervention | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | Roger Kneebone, Ph.D. |
| Use of Cognitive Task Analysis Based on Multimedia Curriculum | USC Keck School of Medicine | Tiffany Grunwald, M.D. |
| Is the Script-Concordance Test a Valid Instrument for Assessment of Intraoperative Decision Making Skills? | McGill University | Sarkas Meterissian, M.D. |
| Computer-Aided Laparoscopic Simulators for Training Surgical Residents | University of Michigan | Rebecca Minter, M.D. |
| The Formal and Informal Curriculum in Surgical Residency Bioethics Education | University of Toronto | Alex Levin, M.D. |
| Determing the Utility of the mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise as a Competency Tool of Surgical Residents | University of British Columbia | Ravi Sidhu, M.D. |
| Applying Automaticity Theory to Simulator Training to Enhance Operative Performance | Carolinas Medical Center | Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD |
| Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of the Family Conference OSCE across Multiple Training Sites | University of Minnesota | Jeffrey Chipman, MD |
| An Investigation of Intra-operative Conflict Management of Surgeons | Southern Illinois University | David Rogers, MD, MPH |
| The Use of a Virtual Character-Enhanced Simulator to Teach and Assess Breast History and Examination Skills | Medical College of Georgia | D. Scott Lind, MD |
| Stress Management Training for Surgeons: Developing a Simulation-based Intervention | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | Nick Sevdalis, MD |
| Validation of Real-time, Intra-operative, Surgical Competence (RISC) Assessments Linked to Patient Outcomes | University of Toronto | Ethan Grober, MD, MEd |
| Stress Training for the Surgical Resident | Temple University | Amy Goldberg, MD |
| Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity as an Index of Surgeon Fatigue | Texas Tech University | Martina Klein, PhD |
| The Missing Piece in Multidisciplinary Team Training | Wake Forest University Miami University | Jessica Sparks, PhD |
| The Reliability of Remote FLS Certification Using Web-based Technology | University of Toronto | Allen Okrainec, MD |
| Investigation of the Pracitcal Influence of the Performance Metrics from da Vinci Skills Simulator on the Skill Learning and Associated Cognitive Workloads | Johns Hopkins University | Gyusung Lee, PhD |
| Pulled from the Passenger Seat: Stimulating Active Resident Engagement in the Operating Room | University of Toronto | Carol-anne Moulton, MD, PhD |
| Surgical Coaching – Using Tele-mentoring to Provide Error Debriefing Behavioral Modeling and Error Recognition to Enhance Surgical Skills | University of Toronto | Teodor Grantcharov, MD, PhD |
| Evaluating the Feasibility and Effeciveness of Telementoring for Teaching Laparoscopic Skills Across Continents | Duke University | Ranjan Sudan, MD |
| Development, Validity Evidence and Feasibiity of a Novel Method to Evaluate Intra-Operative Judgment, Decision-Making and Behaviors | McGill University | Amin Madani, MD, PhD |
| Application of Eye-tracking to Support Calibration of Learning and Expertise in Laparoscopic Surgery. | Virginia Tech, School of Medicine | Nathan Lau, M.D. |
| Linking Interdisciplinary Team-base In-situ Operating Room Situations to Patient Outcomes and Culture Change: A Community-based Participatory Mixed-Methods Study | Stanford School of Medicine | James N. Lau |
| Investigation into the Perceptual Expertise of a Robotic Surgeon. How do we learn to feel what we see? | University of California, San Francisco | Courtney A. Green, M.D. |
| Establishing Learning Curves for General Surgery Residents | Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine | Yue-Yung Hu, M.D., MPH |
| USING AUGMENTED MENTAL IMAGERY TO ENHANCE ROBOTIC PERFORMANCE | Indiana University School of Medicine | Nicholas E. Anton, MS |
| Measuring Operative Self-Efficacy in Surgical Trainees | The Pennsylvania State University | Amanda Cooper, M.D. and Brenessa M. Lindeman, M.D., MEHP |
| Real-time teaching cues for automated coaching in virtual reality training for robot-assisted suturing for hernai repair: a randomized controlled trial. | Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare/Johns Hopkins University | Anand Malpani, M.D. |