Surgical Simulators presentation
Friday, October 3 in the IML Courtyard and Blue Lab:
Guest Speaker: Dr. Tiffany Grunwald, M.D.
Presentation: "Innovation in Surgical Education"
Attendance: IML Staff, Post-Doctoral Fellows,
Teaching Assistants and special guests by invitation only
Dr. Grunwald's "Innovation in Surgical Education" presentation will provide an overview of the current state of multimedia and simulation in medical/surgical education and training: where it is being used now, what current simulators looks like and where it needs to go.
* Current uses of simulation in education and training
* Integrating Simulation in surgical training
* Description of Simulators
* Challenges with integrating simulation in surgical training
* Promoting expertise through simulation
* Learning Theories to Teach expertise
* Advantages of Simulators--Why should we use them?
Dr. Tiffany Grunwald, MD is a surgical fellow in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Dr. Grunwald is working in a collaborative effort with the schools of Medicine, Education, Cinema-Television, Engineering and the Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML) to further the use of multimedia instruction and synthetic environments in surgical education. She is working with the IML to implement a multimedia literacy curriculum within the first two years of medical school.