Hey all, I've been away from the channel for a bit because I've been working hard on this talk. This talk is a draft of a grand rounds I gave recently that focuses on surgical planes and perceptual fluency. For the uninitiated, surgical planes are the critical demarcation points between two anatomic structures. Appropriately guiding your dissection in these planes leads to safe, bloodless dissection and is a hallmark of excellent technical surgery.
Unfortunately, while we have long referred to skilled surgeons as "able to see the tissue planes", we don't currently have a great understanding of how we learn to see these planes or how we can teach them to our trainees. My research focus within surgical education involves exactly that. In this talk, I describe how learning techniques called "perceptual fluency interventions" can rapidly and effectively teach trainees how to pick up on these critical surgical planes.
Check it out and let me know what you think. Am I on to something here? What questions does this style of learning raise for how we should be training our surgeons?
If you want to be involved in developing perceptual fluency tools for surgery in the future, we need your help! Whether you are a green junior trainee who could help us test the educational tools, or a senior surgeon who could help develop them, click on the link below to leave your email address and we will contact you when we are testing content.
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