Surgical education research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison combines the efforts of educators, surgeons, learning scientists, collaborators, and administrative staff both at and outside the university.
Mission
Our team’s mission is to improve the quality and effectiveness surgical education through research and innovation at the University of Wisconsin.
Projects we have worked on include:
- Fluidity of teaching strategies employed in CME courses
- Assessment of a guide for structured debriefing after trauma team scenarios
- Identifying patterns of speech associated with expertise in simulated laparoscopic procedures
- Automated analysis of communication in simulated trauma resuscitations
- Development of a tool for assessing competence in surgical consultation
- Utilizing virtual patient cases for the development of clinical reasoning
The latest surgical education research news
University of Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: February 2022
University of Wisconsin Surgery members engage in remarkable research that yields many impactful publications every month. We’re highlighting a few of these publications monthly to showcase the diversity of research in the department; see the …
University of Wisconsin Surgery Research Roundup: January 2022
Our faculty, residents, fellows, scientists and staff engage in remarkable research that yields numerous impactful publications. We’re highlighting a few of these publications each month to showcase the diversity of research in our department. The …
Recapping the 2019 Layton F. Rikkers Education Retreat
We were proud to again hold our annual Layton F. Rikkers Education Retreat. The retreat is a chance for our surgical education researchers and practitioners to gather and discuss the latest in surgical education. The …
Shapiro student honored for surgical research
This story was originally published at www.smph.wisc.edu. A third-year medical student at UW-Madison who is a research assistant with Department faculty recently received a prestigious national award for her work in surgical-education research. Kirsten Gunderson, …
Surgical Education Research
Sarah Jung, PhD
Assistant Professor
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