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The Immediate and Future Capability of Telepresence in Surgical Operations

Caresyntax

Democratization of Rare Case Knowledge: Expanded access to rare procedures, overcoming the limitations of traditional surgical training, and exposing more surgeons to diverse case experiences.

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How AI Is Enhancing Surgical Safety and Education

NVIDIA: Healthcare

Troves of unwatched surgical video footage are finding new life, fueling AI tools that help make surgery safer and enhance surgical education. The Surgical Data Science Collective (SDSC) is transforming global surgery through AI-driven video analysis, helping to close the gaps in surgical training and practice.

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Achieving Flow: Mastering Attention in Surgical Training and Beyond

AAS

As a big fan of the latter, I even own the Planet Money coffee mug and t-shirt with a cute squirrel holding a martini tee shirt and coffee mug – a reference to John Maynard Keynes’ […] The post Achieving Flow: Mastering Attention in Surgical Training and Beyond appeared first on Association for Academic Surgery (AAS).

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Fertility Preservation and Family Planning in Surgical Training: Highlights from a Much-Needed Discussion

Association of Women Surgeons

Guetter, Natalia Correa, Jessica Millar, Jessica Means, Kelsey Romatoski, Brooke Golisch, Pietro Bortoletto Affiliations: … Continue reading "Fertility Preservation and Family Planning in Surgical Training: Highlights from a Much-Needed Discussion"

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What makes a neurosurgeon?

Neurosurgery

Historically, surgical training was an advanced, multi-year apprenticeship. Many surgical training programs were set up as a ‘pyramid’ with multiple trainees beginning a residency but only 1-2 completed, as the grueling nature of the work would naturally create attrition.

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Needle-Moving AI Research Trains Surgical Robots in Simulation

NVIDIA: Healthcare

The surgical framework enables developers to train robots like the da Vinci Research Kit robot, or dVRK, to manipulate both rigid and soft objects using reinforcement learning and imitation learning frameworks running on NVIDIA RTX GPUs.

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4 Part Blog Series: Considerations as Junior Faculty: What Should I Be Doing? – Part 1: You Are Done with Training, Now What?

Association of Women Surgeons

You’ve completed surgical training and are now a junior faculty member. – Part 1: You Are Done with Training, Now What?" By: Christine Castater, MD, MBA Congratulations! This is the … Continue reading "4 Part Blog Series: Considerations as Junior Faculty: What Should I Be Doing?