Research
Who should set the standards for surgical assessment?
Questions who has the right and responsibility to define what good surgery looks like and how it should be measured.
Practical skills teaching in contemporary surgical education: how can educational theory be applied to promote effective learning?
Looks at how modern learning science can improve the way surgical skills are taught to medical students and trainees.
Simulators and the simulation environment: getting the balance right in simulation-based surgical education
Considers how to design the most effective simulation training experience for surgeons at every stage of their career.
Surgical experts: born or made?
Asks whether great surgeons are naturally gifted or whether excellence is built through practice, training and experience.
Is it time for integration of surgical skills simulation into the UK undergraduate medical curriculum?
Makes the case for giving all UK medical students hands-on surgical simulation training before they qualify as doctors.
Handover practice amongst core surgical trainees at the Oxford School of Surgery
Reviews how trainee surgeons at Oxford pass critical patient information between shifts, identifying where improvements are needed.
Proposing "the burns suite" as a novel simulation tool for advancing the delivery of burns education
Introduces an innovative simulation setting designed to raise the standard of burns training across the healthcare profession.
Using "the burns suite" as a novel high fidelity simulation tool for interprofessional and teamwork training
Shows how a realistic burns simulation environment helps doctors, nurses and other specialists train together as a team.
A video analysis of intra- and interprofessional leadership behaviours within "the burns suite"
Uses video footage to study how surgical teams lead and communicate during high-pressure simulated burns scenarios.
