The ACS-AEI program is excited to bring back our committee-sponsored workshops to Surgical Simulation Summit 2023 attendees. These workshops afford broad opportunities for our attendees to innovate and to engage with colleagues about techniques and tools that enhance surgical simulation-based education, research, and training programs at their centers.
Committee-Sponsored Workshops
Friday, March 3, 10:30 am-12:30 pm CT
Administration and Management Committee
(Refer to separate 2023 MORE Track article)
Curriculum Committee
Bottoms Up! Integrating Inter-Professional Education into a Health Sciences Center
Inter-professional education (IPE) is increasing important at health sciences centers throughout the country to better prepare better health professional students for the teamwork and coordinated care required in today’s dynamic care settings. In fact, leading national organizations have emphasized the need to incorporate IPE into teaching, defining key competencies that all healthcare professionals should have. This workshop will address the need for additional courses in curriculum development.
However, developing an IPE curriculum, presents a unique set of challenges. The workshop addresses an important topic that many health sciences centers face with incorporating IPE into curricula, helping to identify challenges and strategies in implementation.
The Curriculum Committee-sponsored workshop will assist attendees in developing successful IPE programs within their institution through a bottom-up approach. This course will employ small group discussions and cases to develop solutions, utilizing short didactic lectures and group debriefs.
Workshop Learning Objectives
- Define key inter-professional competencies for health professionals
- Identify challenges to integrating IPE within a health sciences center and develop solutions to overcome them
- Create an IPE curriculum using a bottom-up approach
Faculty Development Committee
FUN Workshop Competition
The goal of the FUN Workshop is to generate a FUN and practical tool that can be used by faculty at other AEIs for training using simulation. AEIs with FUN and innovative programs or ideas were encouraged to submit content for review for entry into the annual meeting workshop. The winner will be decided by popular vote. This year’s competing institutes will be:
Harvard Medical School/Brigham Women and Children’s Hospital - No monkeying around: Priming teams for simulation experiences
Tufts Medical Center/Department of Surgery – LEGO of my bovie! Practicing operative communication skills for junior surgeons and residents
Workshop Learning Objectives
- Compare different types of faculty development for adoption at your institution
- Contrast different types of priming activities for team teaching
- Learn several approaches for teaching effective communication in the operating room
Performance Dimension Training for Effective Feedback Based on Direct Observation in Surgical Practice
Work-based assessment is critical for objective competency-based evaluation of trainees with developing clinical skills. Although subject to several limitations, surgical training offers frequent opportunities for direct observation in the clinical setting and the operating room. Additionally, the feedback process is highly variable, as evaluators lack shared expectations (validity) and frame of reference (reliability). Evaluator ratings are often biased by effects such as the “Halo or Horn” effect and central tendency.
Objective assessment and feedback are central in Competency Based Medical Education and essential for deliberate practice and progression to autonomy. This workshop focuses on how to assess trainees and capitalize on opportunities to provide actionable feedback.
Assessment skills also depend on the frame of reference of the evaluator, which is frequently self-referenced and affected by frequently erroneous inferences. Performance dimension training can significantly improve the effectiveness of direct observation and, subsequently, the feedback process.
In this workshop, participants will be given the opportunity to practice giving feedback using video-recorded standardized patient encounters and videos of trainee technical skills performing real operations.
Workshop Learning Objectives
- Define key elements, challenges, and limitations of direct observation in work-based assessment
- Learn to use performance dimension training to improve learner assessment
- Learn how to provide timely, constructive, and specific feedback based on direct observation
Research and Development Committee
Setting Up Multicenter Trials in Surgical Simulation: Leveraging the Power of the AEI Consortium
Using a combination of short didactic presentations and interactive small group learning, this workshop will introduce participants to an approach for setting up multicenter research studies in surgical simulation. Facilitators will use the ACS-AEI National Benchmark Project as a case study to discuss development of a study protocol, recruitment of participating sites, submitting ethics or IRB applications across different sites, selecting assessment tools, and developing a strategy for data collection. This workshop is meant to stimulate more collaborative multicenter research projects for members of for the ACS-AEI Consortium.
Note: Please bring your laptop or tablet with you to this session.
Workshop Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Describe relevant items to include in a research protocol for a multicenter study
- Develop strategies to recruit AEI sites in a multicenter study
- Understand how to prepare ethics applications for a multicenter study
- Define outcomes of interest and select an appropriate assessment tool(s) to measure these outcomes of interest
- Understand strategies for centralized data collection in multicenter studies.
