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The Academy of Surgical Educators hosts a number of Educator Studio Sessions around Australia and New Zealand each year. Each session is a one hour informative event, curated to help to provide a deeper understanding of the issues, themes and topics that matter. We are leading the way in surgical education.

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Educator Studio Sessions 2023

10 February 2023 

• Time: 12:00pm - 3:00pm AEDT / 2:00pm - 5:00pm NZDT
• Modality: Webinar
• Speaker and topic: Professor Richard Canter on "Teamwork in Health Care".

About Richard's topic: Teamwork in Health Care has been developed using over a hundred stories of good and bad leadership and management obtained from medical Trainees. Key issues were identified from an analysis of these stories: Leadership, Teams, Negotiation and Communication. This online session will cover the following:

1. Introduction and overview: Course objectives and a generic model of management and leadership.  
2. Working styles: Examination of your own, the working styles of others, suggestions for improving your own working style and why different styles improve the quality of decisions.
3. Communication: Improving communication with others at work, e.g. in difficult situations when you feel unable to speak out and also useful for interviews, exams, writing PhDs etc.
4. Negotiation skills: Elements of good negotiation by identifying what makes negotiation effective.
About Richard: Appointed as a consultant surgeon at the Royal United Hospital, Bath in 1987, Richard Canter completed a PhD in Management at the University of Bath (1998). He was a faculty member in the School for Health then Social Policy at the University of Bath from 1991 until 2007 before his appointments in the Nuffield Department of Surgery at Oxford in 2007 and emeritus consultant at Oxford University Hospitals in 2015.  He is also a Fellow at Green Templeton College, and Hon Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford. He supervises postgraduate students exploring organisational change.

Richard's motto became: "success is fine but failure is far more interesting". Indeed he now regards success and failure as no more than different forms of data. Success leads to repetition and failure leads to innovation and creativity. Perhaps you might agree. Simply by being enthusiastic, and refusing to give up, he has managed to turn things around somewhat, which should be an encouragement to all those for whom life is not straightforward endless success.

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27 April 2023 
• Time: 6.00 - 7.00pm AEST
• Modality: Webinar
• Speaker and topic: Associate Professor David Storey on “Design and Use of Realistic Meshed Silicone Models in Surgical and Endoscopic Teaching”

About David's topic: Over the last six years at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Institute of Academic Surgery, Sydney, we have designed over twenty different models using silicone, usually reinforced with fine elastic mesh. The first step is an anatomically accurate mould, created either manually or using 3D printing, that is rotated on a simple spit while silicone mixture or silicone impregnated mesh is applied. Using this technique, we have created realistic hollow organs including all of the gastrointestinal and urinary tracts as well as vessels and skin. Solid organs use a 3D printed mould into which silicone is poured. The organs can be used in table top practice, or incorporated into a vacuum moulded abdominoperitoneal shape for laparotomy and laparoscopy practice. The hollow gastrointestinal organs can be joined to create convincing models for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy including ERCP, and for colonoscopy. All models are incorporated into regular and ad hoc training sessions for medical students, early surgical Trainees and operating theatre nurses; some have been subject to validation studies.  They also form the focus for surgical hybrid crisis simulation sessions.

Opportunities for Trainees to use human cadaveric or animal tissues are increasingly rare and expensive, and these models can fill an important gap in training. 
About David: Adjunct Associate Professor David Storey was the head of the Department of HPB and Upper GI Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital until 2013. Since then he continued as Director of Training, Sydney South West Surgical Skills Network (under HETI), and when the RPAH IAS opened in 2015 he became the Director of Surgical Education at the IAS. He has now left those roles, but remains the Director of the David Storey Surgical Skills and Simulation Centre, RPAH Institute of Academic Surgery.

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This educational activity has been approved in the College's CPD program. Fellows who participate can claim one point per hour (maximum of two points) in Category 3 - Maintenance of Knowledge and Skills. For those with a RACS CPD requirement this activity will be automatically uploaded to your record.

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