![]() ![]() Our goal is to foreshorten the learning curve for basic surgical skills and improve performance in the clinical operating room. We feel that these innovations may enhance surgical dexterity of residents without the need for animal sacrifice. A headlamp videocamera allows unobstructive recording of the resident's technical performance and provides subsequent visual feedback for self-improvement when compared to reference instructional videotapes. FLS The Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery. Lap 1 basic laparoscopic skills training to prepare for FLS. Open 2 advanced suturing and interactive OR tasks. Reconstituted, lyophilized, irradiated bovine arteries and ileum provide models of biologic tissue for creating handsewn vascular anastomoses and sutured or stapled gastrointestinal anastomoses. Bootcamp pre-internship course for matriculating PGY1 surgery residents. Polytetrafluoroethylene vascular prostheses permit quantification of the precision of needle passage and suturing by measurement of leakage of water through a vascular anastomosis. Latex tubing and penrose drains allow experience in suturing, knot tying, and hemostasis. Pigs' feet simulate human skin for exercises in skin incision, lesion excision, suturing, and basic plastic surgical techniques. The laboratory modules allow supervision and self-instruction, practice, and videotape monitoring of the following techniques: skin incision, suturing, knot tying, hemostasis, vascular anastomosis, and intestinal anastomosis. This paper reviews the laboratory models used to teach fundamental surgical skills in our general surgery residency.
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