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Educator Studio Sessions

The Academy of Surgical Educators hosts a number of Educator Studio Sessions around Australia and Aotearoa 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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CPD Hours: This educational activity has been approved in the College's CPD program. Participants with a RACS Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirement can claim one hour of CPD under the Education category, which will be uploaded by RACS on your behalf.     

 

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Time: 6pm - 7pm AEDT

Topic: Old dogs and new tricks; utilising ChatGPT as a revision resource for the Generic Surgical Sciences Examination
Presenter: Dr Toby Ball 

About the Topic: 

This session will explore: 

  • Exploring the use of large language models, such as ChatGPT, as a learning tool, and how it can be used to study for the GSSE
  • How it produced resources and utilised information
  • How utilising these resources would translate to performance in the GSSE
  • How these models will continue to adapt and change surgical learning in the future

About the Presenter: 

Dr Toby Ball is a registrar currently working in Emergency Medicine at Waikato Hospital in New Zealand, with an interest in Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery.  His interest in Surgical Education links in with his role as a Content Creator for DernNet and Senior Reviewer at TeachMeAnatomy. Dr Ball was recently awarded the Best Research Poster prize at the 2024 ANZBA Annual Scientific Congress (ASC) for his work on geothermal burns in the Waikato region of New Zealand.


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