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.