Center for Advanced Training & Simulation

The MIS training center provides the surgery residents and medical students a training environment that duplicates laparoscopic set ups they will encounter in the operating rooms. A broad range of laparoscopic skills exercises are offered here. We also provide didactic materials associated with the curriculum to our residents at their initial orientation session. All materials will either be web delivered or provided on DVD, CD, or supplied jump drives. The Resident Education web page is the Jump Point to all of the topics that will be covered this year.

The first component of the Junior resident curriculum (PGY-1 and PGY-2) is completion of basic laparoscopic skills exercises that have been chosen by the director of the Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery.

These sessions will be on a walk-in basis in the training laboratory so they will be compliant to each resident's schedule. Lab hours are 8:00 to 5:00 (M-F) and scheduled weekend hours can be arranged if warranted.

The final portion of the junior curriculum will be study and comprehension of the more common MIS procedures. Instruction and lecture will be provided by narrated teaching cases and PowerPoint presentations. Comprehension of the didactic materials associated with the required procedures will evaluated through periodic quizzes providedby laparoscopic faculty and these quizzes should be repeated until the passing score of 90% is achieved.

We plan for this to be a constantly evolving curriculum, so we encourage you to submit comments or suggestions you believe would improve the quality of our program.

Selecting the Skills Exercises button will show you illustrations and explanations of the skills exercises you are expected to complete during the curriculum.