We started Edu-rrhaphy to make surgery easier to learn.
In this blog, we discuss our perspectives on surgical education; what we think is lacking and what we think could be improved today with technology and multimedia.
Psychometric spatial skills tests are not a reliable way to select trainees and the relevance of these abilities to surgery is questionable. Surgical training could benefit from using tools such as perceptual learning and operative videos to train domain-specific visual and spatial abilities.
There is a lot of surgical learning that doesn't involve operating- check out our video on the surgical management of pancreatic cancer.
Review of the small bowel anatomy and potential internal hernias associated with roux en y gastric bypass.
The expert blind spot refers to a phenomenon where people with advanced content knowledge may make assumptions about student learning that are in conflict with the students' actual development. Expert blind spots have held back surgical education, as content experts without formal training as teachers may hold views of learning that are at odds with how novices actually learn.