Current News:
June 2008:
September
1, 2008 Deadline for the Fall Cycle for the
METI Fund
for Research in Surgical Team-Based Training
The
METI fund for research is designed to further investigation led by
surgeon principal investigators at institutions with surgical training
programs. The grants awarded are in the range of $15,000 to $30,000 and
grant funding may not exceed $40,000. Grants must focus on key research
questions involving team-based training in the surgical setting and will
not be awarded to fund development or maintenance of simulation centers,
development of training scenarios, or purchase of simulators. The
research questions should be theory-based, not just practical
evaluations of the use of scenarios or other simulations. The goal is
to provide a scientific foundation for integrating team-based training
into the curriculum. For example, little has been done in the area of
development of measurement instruments for assessment of team-based
training. Since the grants are not funding scenario development,
research projects should utilize previously validated scenarios or the
proposal should present some pilot data as evidence that scenarios to be
utilized have been pilot tested. While it is assumed that most of these
grant proposals will utilize adult human simulators, this is not a
requirement for funding. Research produced by this grant process must
be submitted to either the ACS or the APDS for presentation at one of
their annual meetings. Grants will be reviewed by a five member ACS/APDS
Educational Research Committee. Proposals will be evaluated with
respect to originality, significance, methodology, investigator
qualifications, feasibility, facility/resources, budget and relationship
to the goals of the funding priorities. Two funding cycles for grant
requests are available with grant deadlines of March 1 and September 1.
Grant
Application Format
The
following sections are required for grant submission and should be
clearly identified.
1)
Title
page, including correspondence information
2)
Executive summary (one page or less)
3)
Letter of support from Department Chair
4)
IRB
letter. A letter from the Chair of the Institutional Review Board of
the appropriate organization should be submitted showing the project has
been reviewed and approved.
5)
Statement of the problem and the research question
6)
Literature review (three pages or less)
7)
Specific aims/hypothesis (one page or less)
8)
Methodology (four pages or less)
9)
Timeline
10)
Bibliography
11)
Budget and justification
12)
Abbreviated curriculum vitae of principal and co-investigators (no more
than three pages per investigator)
Six
copies of the grant should be submitted to:
Gary Dunnington, M.D.
Professor and Chair of Surgery
SIU School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
P.O. Box 19638
Springfield, IL 62794-9638
May 2008--Fundamentals of
Surgery Curriculum (FSC)
This message is to let you
know that The American College of Surgeons Division of Education has
posted a sample Fundamentals of Surgery Curriculum (FSC) scenario on
the FSC Page in the ACS Web Site. The scenario is representative of a
large group of virtual patients presented for the learner to evaluate
and recommend initial therapeutic interventions. If you have not yet
had the opportunity to preview the FSC in person, we hope you will take
a few minutes to view this sample scenario. If you would like to
discuss the FSC in more detail, please feel free to contact Dr. Patricia
J. Numann (numannp@upstate.edu),
who is the Curriculum Director, or to contact me.
You can find the
scenario at: http://www.facs.org/education/fundsurgerydemo.html
If you are interested
in taking advantage of the Advance Purchase Plan for your 2008 PGY-1s,
please contact Ms. Shana Cobb (scobb@facs.org)
before 4:00 pm Central time on Friday, May 2. Shana will send you
information about the Advance Purchase Plan and a form to use to start
the enrollment process.
Save the Date: 2009 Surgery Education Week
Salt Lake City
28 April--2 May 2009
Joint APDS-ASE Day 30 April 2009

Link to
Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) www.flsprogram.org
Recognizing the importance of improving surgical
technical skills and enhancing patient safety, Covidien, a leading
manufacturer of medical devices and supplies, has created The Covidien
Educational Fund. This generous gift supports the introduction of the
FLS Educational program into North American residency and fellowship
training. Through this grant, FLS is available to program directors to
use as a standardized educational tool for teaching and verification of
learning of their trainees. The Covidien Educational Fund brings no-cost
training and testing directly to over 250 surgical residency programs in
the United States and Canada, reaching thousands of surgeons-in-training
over a three-year period, as well as MIS/HPB/colorectal fellowships for
one year.
--Lisa Jukelevics
Director, FLS Program
SAGES
11300 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 600
Los Angeles, CA 90064
310.437.0544 ext 115
310.437.0585 fax
lisa@sages.org
www.flsprogram.org
New way to pay APDS
Dues: Click here
Email Arnold
Tabuenca at
atabuenca@llu.edu
to receive your password and register your
residents to gain access to this Basic Science Course and the
Comprehensive Clinical Review in General Surgery. Additional
lectures are being added regularly.