Dr Richard Satava: The Science of Surgical Training- Time, Profit and Surgical Simulation
The evidence that simulation and proficiency-based training produce better, safer surgeons has been settled for over two decades. So why has surgery been so slow to take it up?
Professor Tony Gallagher talks to surgical simulation pioneer Dr Richard "Rick" Satava, Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of Washington and a former DARPA programme manager, about the study they ran together at Yale, why the operating room is the wrong place to learn basic skills, and why the real barriers to change are time, leadership and money rather than the science. They close on the limits of what…
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