Surgical Education Theorising an Emerging Domain /

This book delineates surgical education as a new and emerging field of academic enquiry. Surgical (as opposed to medical) education is emerging as a distinct field with its own identity. Surgeons have started to professionalise their educational role, and draw professional, non-surgeon educators int...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Fry, Heather (Editor), Kneebone, Roger (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Series:Advances in Medical Education, 2
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The environment of surgical education and training: Roger Kneebone and Heather Fry.- 2. Educational ideas and surgical education: Heather Fry.- 3. Simulation: Roger Kneebone
  • 4. Researching surgical education: Heather Fry, Nick Sevdalis, Roger Kneebone.- Part 2.-  5. Conceptualising surgical education assessment: Lambert W.T. Schuwirth and Cees P.M. van der Vleuten
  • 6. The scalpel and the ‘mask’: threshold concepts and surgical education:       Ray Land and Jan H.F. Meyer.- 7.  The surgeon’s expertise: K Anders Ericsson.- 8. Current and future simulation and learning technologies: Fernando Bello and Harry Brenton.- 9. The role of patients: Debra Nestel and Linda Bentley
  • 10. Self-monitoring in surgical practice: slowing down when you should: Carol- Anne Moulton and Ron Epstein
  • 11. Learning and identity in the professional world of the surgeon: Alan Bleakley.- 12. Beyond ‘communication skills’: research in team communication and implications for surgical education: Lorelei Lingard.- 13. Surgical education: perspectives on learning, teaching and research: Gunther Kress.- Afterword: Roger Kneebone and Heather Fry.