The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada has just issued an excellent report on resident duty hours, safety and fatigue. It’s sensible and balanced, and it’s great read! Click the image below for the summary.
Sep 14, 2013
Kat Pederson made us a delicious Surgery 101 cake to celebrate our one millionth download!
Sep 4, 2013
We are very pleased to announce that Surgery 101 has just passed
Many many thanks to all of our listeners and supporters worldwide.
We are only getting started :D
Aug 23, 2013
It's been a little quiet here on the Surgery 101 website over the summer, but there's been a lot of work going on behind the scenes on our "Surgery 101 Studios" project. We really think you're going to like what's coming up, here is a little sneak peek for now!
Jul 19, 2013
This week Surgery 101 is hosting another excellent educational video produced by our amazing medical students from Edmonton.
The video is 'Approach to Chest CT', by Roochi Arora and Parichita Choudhury.
YouTubeLink (go to Episode Extras in the app to access)
(Video hosted by YouTube, produced by Arora & Choudhury, 2013)
Jul 10, 2013
In this episode, Susan Chaudoir explains our recent study called ‘Ask the Surgeon’, considering what pre-clinical medical students want to know about surgery
Jul 2, 2013
Jul 2, 2013
We have started work on Surgery 101 Studios! 
You’ll be hearing much more about this in the weeks and months ahead, but for now here’s a sneak peek from our first shoot!
Jul 2, 2013
At last night’s meeting of the League of Surgical Educators, we reviewed Hill & Vaughan’s paper on gendered medical student experiences in surgery, “The only girl in the room: how paradigmatic trajectories deter female students from surgical careers.” The paper was excellent and stimulated a wide-ranging discussion about career decisions for all medical students. Lessons I took away from the discussion were:
1. You only have one life, and you have to decide for yourself how to live it. All choices have consequences, and every path you take will contain regrets.
2. Don’t take anyone else’s word for it when you’re making important decisions about your life. Don’t let anyone tell you what you can’t be.
3. Becoming a physician is hard, regardless of which speciality you choose. There are plenty of other specialities which require hard work and dedication, and plenty of unhappy doctors in non-surgical specialities. The narrative about a surgical career requiring sacrifice is a powerful one (see also: Grey’s Anatomy), but it’s not necessarily true and it doesn’t have to be that way if you don’t want.
4. We need more good people in surgery, regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation or class.
Click on the image below for the abstract.
Jun 7, 2013
In this episode, Krista Lai discusses medical students' attitudes to online professionalism and the use of social networking software.
May 31, 2013
In this episode, Kerry Wong discusses the use of medical television dramas in the teaching of medicine and surgery.
May 24, 2013
In this video episode, Dr Jonathan White considers the advantages and potential challenges associated with using mobile computing devices such as the iPhone in medical education.
May 18, 2013
To celebrate the launch of the Surgery 101 app on Google Play, we're offering a 50% discount on the next one hundred and one (101) 1-year Surgery 101 subscriptions! Don't wait, this offer is only good till the end of May!
To sign up, please click here and use the following code: SURGERY101
(If you are in the app tap the Extras button and then the Episode Links button to go directly to the link above to create your account and enter the code)
May 17, 2013
In this week's video episode, Dr Jonathan White discusses the use of team-based assessment of medical students, considering "Who Writes What?" when it comes to written comments.
May 10, 2013
We are pleased to announce that the Surgery 101 is now available on the Google Play Store! You can now enjoy all our episodes and videos on your cool Android phone, tablet and device!
May 9, 2013
Here is the TEDMED Live talk I recently gave at the U of A FOMD100 event – enjoy!
May 3, 2013
In this episode, Shannon Erichsen, Charlotte Chan & Peter Jaffray discuss the recent collaboration between Surgery 101 and the School of Business at the University of Alberta.
Apr 26, 2013
Here are the PDF notes for episode 125
Apr 26, 2013
In this episode, Dr Chris Decker discusses the use of checklists and mnemomics in the care of post-operative surgery patients.
After listening to this episode, learners will be able to:
- Describe the use of checklists and mnemonic memory aids in the care of surgical patients
- Define DAVID’s PAW, WOLF and TOIL
Apr 19, 2013
In this episode, Dr Erik Beuker discusses trauma thoracotomy.
After listening to this episode, learners will be able to:
• Describe the basic steps in trauma thoracotomy
• List indications and contraindications to trauma thoracotomy
• List outcomes from trauma thoracotomy
Apr 19, 2013
Here are the PDF notes for episode 124.
Apr 12, 2013
Here are the PDF notes for episode 123
Apr 12, 2013
In this episode, Darwin Wan discusses the neurosurgical ophthalmic examination. After listening to this episode, learner should be able to:
· List eight components of the neurosurgical ophthalmic examination.
· Perform a basic neurosurgical ophthalmic examination.
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