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Outcome-Based Training and the Role of Simulation

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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Surgery and Surgical Subspecialties

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The traditional time-based model of surgical education can lead to uneven skill development among training surgical residents. With the current demands of surgical education, outcome-based training along with simulation provides an opportunity to fill in the gaps that the traditional model of training fails to address. Outcome-based training on simulators can lead to superior and uniform skill acquisition by trainees. This chapter describes the outcome-based training through the lens of the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition, explores the evidence behind outcome-based training paradigms, and addresses the challenges yet to be overcome.

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  1. Department of General Surgery, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Ronit Patnaik

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

    Dimitrios Stefanidis

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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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Patnaik, R., Stefanidis, D. (2019). Outcome-Based Training and the Role of Simulation. 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_7

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