Current and future teaching methods of surgery: what’s the role of simulation? / Day 2
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Conference of the American College of Surgeons – Italy Chapter
CONFERENCE
Presidents:
ANTONIO DI CATALDO, Full Professor of Surgery, University of Catania
LUCA MORELLI, Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Pisa
Honorary President:
FRANCO MOSCA, Emeritus Professor of General Surgery, University of Pisa
Programme
08.30 Registration
09.00 Conference opening
Luca Morelli, Conference President
Antonio Di Cataldo, Conference President
Carlo R. Tomassini, General Manager of Hospital-University of Pisa
1°SESSION. SIMULATION AND TRAINING IN SURGERY
Presidenti: Achille Lucio Gaspari, Andrea Pietrabissa
Moderatori: Mauro Ferrari, Franca Melfi
09.20 Accredited Educational Center ACS: EndoCAS
Mauro Ferrari, Pisa
09.40 Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery (FRS): a Multi-specialty Curriculum for Basic Skills in Robotic Surgery
Andrea Moglia, Pisa
10.00 Training and learning curve in robotic surgery: experimental application models
Luigi Pugliese, Pavia
10.20 Virtual Operator Room for Simulation of Surgical Scenarios
Giancarlo Torre, Genova
10.40 Training of the “Robotic” Surgeon
Giuseppe Spinoglio, Milano
11.00 Discussion
11.20 Simulation and maintenance of laparoscopic and robotic skills
Fabio Sbrana, Chicago
11.40 Advances of intra-operative navigation systems
Vincenzo Ferrari, Pisa
12.00 3D printers in the realization of patient-specific models
Andrea Peri, Pavia
12.20 Cost-Benefits of Simulators in Robotic Surgery
Giuseppe Turchetti, Pisa
12.40 Discussion and conclusion
13.00 Light lunch
2° SESSION. SURGICAL TRAINING: UPCOMING, TECHNOLOGY AND PERSPECTIVES
Presidents: Francesco Basile, Antonio Di Cataldo
Moderators: Massimo Chiarugi, Fabio Sbrana
14.00 Keynote Lecture
The future of engineered bio-part replacement surgery: potential benefits and risks
Sir Alfred Cuschieri, Dundee
14.30 Methodology of learning in the post-modern era: lights and shadows
Marco Elli, Milano
14.50 Current contents of frontal teaching: academic tradition and critical reasoning
Francesco Basile, Catania
15.10 Virtual anatomy in propedeutic video at different dissecting times in surgery colo-rectal
Sergio Castorina, Catania
15.30 Telemedicine and Telesurgery with Robots
Achille Lucio Gaspari, Roma
15.50 The teaching of the surgical act in the modern era
Giulio Di Candio, Pisa
16.10 Current and Future Methods of Teaching in Surgery: Which Role of Simulation?
Alberto Patriti, Hospital Marche Nord
16.30 Watson: An Intelligent Tutor for Clinical Case Simulation. The experience of Humanitas University, Milano
Marco Montorsi e Raffaello Furlan, Milano
16.50 Discussion
17.10 End of conference
Scientific Secretariat
M. Bianchini
G. Caprili
G. Di Franco
C. D’Isidoro
N. Furbetta
D. Gianardi
S. Guadagni
M. Palmeri
For more information, please contact the Conference Secretary:
Eventi in Fiore di Francesca Fiorentini
Via della Faggiola 18
56126 Pisa
Tel. +39 3467202625
e-mail: f.fiorentini@eventiinfiore.it

