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Educator Studio Sessions 2024
Please note all Educator Studio Sessions are recorded and will be available to be viewed below in Past Educator Studio Sessions.
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), for those with a RACS CPD requirement this activity will be automatically uploaded to your record.
Wednesday 17 April 2024
Time: 6.00 - 7.00pm AEST
Topic: Easing the path to surgical training: Perspectives of Surgical Residents and SET Registrars.
Presenter: Dr Tom Neerhut
About the topic: Gaining entry to accredited surgical training is not easy. Developing both the surgical and professional skills required to become a proficient surgeon requires many years of training. While technical skills are often the focus of training, the professional skills, and behaviours essential to successful surgical practice sometimes receive less attention. The journey toward honing these skills begins as a junior doctor in the role of the Surgical Resident. Surgical residency provides insight into the essential skills required to become a successful surgical registrar and ultimately, a successful RACS Fellow. Optimising preparedness for the RACS surgical education and training (SET) application is an essential component of the surgical resident’s development. These are the vital formative years of every surgeon’s training. However, with many competing interests and often busy schedules, life for the surgical resident pursuing SET training entry can be challenging.
Despite the importance of these years the role of the surgical resident remains largely undefined. While the RACS JDocs framework provides a useful guide, no published research explores what defines the highly performing surgical resident. In an attempt to both ease the pathway toward SET training, improve patients care and ensure surgical residents are on a path toward becoming valuable surgical team members, Dr Thomas Neerhut sought to decipher what constitutes the ‘highly performing’ surgical resident. Answers are received from both the surgical resident and accredited surgical registrar perspectives.
Dr Thomas Neerhut is an unaccredited urology registrar working at Werribee Mercy Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria. He has a keen interest in optimising the professional skills of surgery and seeks to emphasize the importance of these skills in improving the individual, the surgical team and ultimately patient care.
Tom has worked closely with Urologists Dr Richard Grills (FRACS) and Dr Kathryn Mcleod (FRACS). Dr Mcleod has achieved her masters in Surgical Education and is currently undertaking her PhD in this area. Working with Drs Grills and Mcleod, Tom has published qualitative research exploring perspectives on the highly performing surgical resident and is currently undertaking further research investigating surgical consultant’s perspectives on both the highly performing surgical registrar and surgical team. He hopes to publish these additional works in the near future and thus give additional voice to the diverse ideals, expectations and priorities of the surgical team.
Tuesday 14 May 2024
Time: 6.00 - 7.00pm AEST
Topic: Investigating the impact of innovative AI chatbot on post-pandemic medical education and clinical assistance. A comprehensive analysis.
Presenter: Dr Ishith Seth
About the topic:
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted clinical experience and exposure of medical students and junior doctors. Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration in medical education has the potential to enhance learning and improve patient care. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of three popular large language models (LLMs) in serving as clinical decision-making support tools for junior doctors.
About the presenter: Dr Ishith Seth is a senior plastic resident at Frankston Hospital with a great interest in clinical research. He holds honorary senior researcher affiliations with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The Royal Children’s Hospital, and The University of Melbourne and is a clinical tutor at Monash University. He led pioneering research into the utilization of 3D-printed trapezium implants as a novel treatment modality for thumb-base arthritis and has an extensive research portfolio of over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He is an Editorial Board Member for Gland Surgery, Journal of Clinical Medicine, Precision Surgery and the Annals of Joint as well as the Resident Advisory Board for PRS Global Open. Additionally, he has contributed as a guest editor to the Lancet, PRS and Aesthetic Surgery Journal.
Tuesday 11 June 2024
Time: 6.00 - 7.00pm AEST
Topic: Training better doctors and training doctors better: The use of video recordings for teaching, coaching, feedback and assessment purposes.
Presenter: Dr Andrew Huang
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Wednesday 17 July 2024
Time: 6.00 - 7.00pm AEST
Topic: Connecting simulation and quality improvement: how can healthcare simulation really improve patient care?
Presenter: Dr Victoria Brazil
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