Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties

This pragmatic book is a guide for the use of simulation in surgery and surgical subspecialties, including general surgery, urology, gynecology, cardiothoracic and vascular surgery, orthopedics, ophthalmology, and otolaryngology. It offers evidence-based recommendations for the application of simulation in surgery and addresses procedural skills training, clinical decision-making and team training, and discusses the future of surgical simulation. Readers are introduced to the different simulation modalities and technologies used in surgery with a variety of learners including students, residents, practicing surgeons, and other health-related professionals.



Dimitrios Stefanidis, MD, PhD
Vice Chair of Education, Chief MIS/ Bariatric Surgery
Indiana University
School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Indianapolis, IN
USA
 
James R. Korndorffer, Jr., MD, MHPE
Vice Chair of Education
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
Stanford, CA
USA
 

Robert Sweet, MD, FACS

Executive Director WISH and CREST
Medical Director Kidney Stone Clinic
Professor Urology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA

USA