Research
Research supported by the Surgical Education Center and its advisory group has three goals: to advance our understanding of minimally invasive surgery; to improve surgical techniques; and to enhance the transfer of these surgical techniques to surgeons.
Among the studies conducted by group members are:
- Assessment of the effect of simulated training and practice on surgical proficiency in minimally invasive urologic surgery.
- Realistic, affordable low-fidelity model for learning bronchoscopic transbronchial needle aspiration.
- A survey of educational perceptions and practices of simulation-based bronchoscopy.
- Outcomes of laparoscopic gastric restrictive procedures in academic centers.
- Outcomes of laparoscopic partial and complete cholecystectomy.
- Laparoscopy: the approach of choice for acute appendicitis in the morbidly obese.
- Resolution of diabetes after laparoscopic gastric bypass.
- Robot-assisted laparoscopic radical cystectomy for bladder cancer: An analysis of perioperative surgical outcomes.
- Web-based diagnosis and post-op follow-up in otolaryngology.