Surgical Case Selection: How the Laboratory for Transformative Administration Works with Surgeons to Schedule Cases During COVID-19
Hospitals and the many healthcare professionals working in them strive to bring the best care to their patients no matter the circumstance.
Divide and Conquer: Responding to COVID-19 with Residency Platoons
To care for patients, healthcare providers must stay healthy themselves. During the initial weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, Duke’s surgical residency programs faced a serious challenge: how to keep their residents safe, healthy, and available, while still meeting the needs of patients in a rapidly changing global landscape.
Electrical Brain Stimulation May Help Surgeons Learn Technical Surgical Skills Faster
General surgery residents are required to pass the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) and Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery simulation-based certifications in accordance with the America
2nd Annual Surgeons as Educational Scholars Symposium
On February 23, 2020, the General Surgery Residency Program held its 2nd annual Surgeons as Educational Scholars Symposium. The event serves as a formal training course to prepare residents for their role as educators in surgery.
A Portal Into Cancer Care: Growing a Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery Program Through New Treatments
How can a surgical program define and measure growth? The number of incoming patients? Surgical outcomes? Or is it the perioperative experience of the patient?
Giving Life: Duke Surgeons Perform First Donation After Circulatory Death Heart Transplant in the United States
Approximately 6 million patients in the United States live with heart failure. Of those, 10% will progress to end-stage heart failure. While there is no cure, heart transplantation can bring hope to patients when other treatments no longer can.
Making Leaders: A Formal Soft Skills Curriculum for the Duke Plastic Surgery Residency Program
Recently, Duke’s Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency Program has pioneered a formal “soft skills” curriculum that aggressively expands professional development and training that is broadly applicable outside the OR and clinic.