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Teaching in the Operating Room

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Within surgical education, effective teaching in the operating room is clearly one of the most important and yet most challenging and difficult-to-define tasks for any surgical educator. Although there has been an evolution in the education structure of residency training regarding didactics and research, evaluation and training of operative skills remains largely unchanged from the apprentice model of the past century. Greater demands for public accountability and the pressures of a busy modern academic medical practice highlight the need to apply what we have learned from education and motivation psychology and harness new technologies to make operative education more effective and more efficient. Assessment of operative skill must move away from infrequent semiannual or end-of-rotation evaluations which are incomplete, untimely, and ineffective for guiding improvement toward frequent, numerous, and immediate coaching sessions about help trainees make consistent improvement toward well-defined goals. Fortunately, new technologies can facilitate the collection and processing of larger volumes of high-quality detailed evaluations. This use of technology coupled with a shift toward a collaborative feedback-based approach to teaching can create an education experience that is more effective, efficient, and rewarding for all involved.

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Mirza, M., Koenig, J.F. (2018). Teaching in the Operating Room. In: Köhler, T., Schwartz, B. (eds) Surgeons as Educators . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64728-9_8

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