Grand Rounds in Surgical Education
Today saw our first Grand Rounds in Surgical Education at the University of Alberta. This event is supported by our industry partners Covidien, and wi…
Blog Archives
Transfer of Skills in Simulation
At this month’s Surgical Education Rounds, Dr Bin Zheng discussed a recent paper entitled: Prospective, randomized assessment of transfer of tra…
“Learning Under the Gun”
At this month’s Surgical Education Rounds, we discussed a classic paper by Musselman et al on intimidation and harassment in surgical education.…
Year 1 Surgery talk
I had a lot of fun talking to our Year 1 medical students today about Surgical Therapeutics! Here are some images from the session, and a list of ques…
Video: Approach to Chest CT
This week Surgery 101 is hosting another excellent educational video produced by our amazing medical students from Edmonton. The video is ‘Appro…
Ask the Surgeon!
In this episode, Susan Chaudoir explains our recent study called ‘Ask the Surgeon’, considering what pre-clinical medical students want to…
The Only Girl in the Room
At last night’s meeting of the League of Surgical Educators, we reviewed Hill & Vaughan’s paper on gendered medical student experience…
Video: Online Professionalism & Facebook
In this episode, Krista Lai discusses medical students’ attitudes to online professionalism and the use of social networking software. This work…
Video: Teachable Moments
this episode, Kerry Wong discusses the use of medical television dramas in the teaching of medicine and surgery. This work is licensed under a Creativ…
Video: “It’s on my iPhone” – the use of mobile computing devices in medical education
In this video episode, Dr Jonathan White considers the advantages and potential challenges associated with using mobile computing devices such as the …