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Simulation in Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Simulation-based training is gaining widespread acceptance across many surgical specialties. Cardiothoracic surgery in particular has done an excellent job of investigating simulation-based training and implementing simulation in the curriculum for their trainees. Collaboration among institutions at the national level has increased simulation’s popularity among surgical educators in cardiothoracic surgery and leads to its incorporation into many training programs across the country. Current simulation-based training aids span the full spectrum from non-tissue-based models to animal and cadaver labs to virtual reality in some instances. Continued national collaboration and research in simulation-based training in cardiothoracic surgery will create valuable new learning opportunities for trainees and attending surgeons alike. The goal of this chapter is to discuss the current state of simulation-based education in cardiothoracic surgery, to describe the ways in which cardiothoracic surgery as a field has collaborated nationally to advance simulation-based training, and to provide some insight on the future directions of simulation in cardiothoracic surgical education.

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  1. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Hadley K. Wilson & Richard H. Feins

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  1. Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Dimitrios Stefanidis

  2. Vice Chair of Education, Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    James R. Korndorffer Jr.

  3. Executive Director WISH and CREST, Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Robert Sweet

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Wilson, H.K., Feins, R.H. (2019). Simulation in Cardiothoracic Surgery. In: Stefanidis, D., Korndorffer Jr., J., Sweet, R. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98276-2_22

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