On 29 October WEISS hosted our third virtual mini-symposium, this time on the topic of the Future of Surgical Training.
Joined by 72 attendees from 12 different countries, surgeons and researchers came together to discuss strategies and technologies that can be used to better the training of the surgeons of the future.
Ozanan Merieles (Harvard Medical School) spoke about the importance of developing a common language for surgical training. He stressed that with a recent shift in surgical training to competency-based advancement, as opposed to time served, it is more important than ever to develop new reliable and scalable tools to assess intra operative performance.
Ahmed Ghazi (University of Rochester Medical Centre) discussed the integration of performance metrics into 3D printed training models. Using a combination of 3D printing and casting, Ghazi and his colleagues have been able to create realistic models, which are able to be perfused and therefore can simulate bleeding. As these models are made of non-toxic materials, they can even be used inside an operating theatre environment for surgical training.
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Justin Collins (University College London Hospitals) discussed the infrastructure, protocols and safety issues related to telepresence services. He concluded that while telepresence services have proven to be useful in improving outcomes and reducing mortality, telepresence needs agreement and guidelines to enable safe use.
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Nadine Haram (Proximie and NHS) highlighted the use of telementorship in training, specifically focusing on her company Proximie, a software solution which expands surgical collaboration enabling surgeons to share expertise using augmented reality tools before, during and after surgery.
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Andrew Hung (University of Southern California) spoke about his work in automated performance metrics and the application of machine learning algorithms to process these metrics in surgical training, and also discussed his new work into surgical gesture recognition.
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In his second talk, Ahmed Ghazi spoke about utilizing eye tracking to shorten the learning curve in robotic surgery.
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Carla Pugh (Stanford Medicine) discussed her Surgical Metrics Project, an experiment which used wearable technologies on surgeons from around the world to measure their surgical decision making and technique whilst performing a common surgical procedure.
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John Kelly (University College London), who was joined by Ronnie Stafford (University College London), discussed an application which they had developed to collect outcome data using patients wearables to monitor patients after surgery which could also have applications for surgical training.
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Finally, Mehran Anvair (McMaster University) delivered his keynote lecture titled: From telementorship to automation: Developing the NASA telesurgical programme.
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To complement the symposium, Ashwin Sridhar (University College London Hospitals) also prepared a virtual talk on the use of VR and AR in surgical training which is available to watch again on our YouTube channel.
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Once again we received excellent feedback from attendees, receiving an overall rating of 4.5/5! Our next virtual mini-symposium will be held on 15 December and is on the topic of Phantoms for Medical Research - registration now open via Eventbrite!
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