Faculty Book Corner Video: Donald Risucci & Kevin Wolfe discuss “Guide for Researchers in Surgical Education”

March 15, 2011

The latest Faculty Book Corner video has been added to the Health Science Library’s YouTube channel. On February 25, Donald S. Risucci, PhD, and Kevin Wolfe, PhD, from the Department of Surgery discussed their recent book chapter with Marie Ascher, Associate Director, USER Services at the Health Sciences Library. Their chapter is from the book, Guide for Researchers in Surgical Education, edited by Jeannette Capella, Steven J. Kasten, Susan Steinemann, Laura Torbeck and distributed by Ciné-Med Publishing, Inc. The book was written by a group of researchers from the Association for Surgical Education (ASE).

The Guide is designed to meet the needs of researchers engaged in the practice of evaluating and developing programs to the betterment of surgical education.  The focus of the book is research design and analysis, especially in light of technological developments such as the use of simulation in surgical education.

Chapters

  1. Hot topics in surgical education research
  2. Development of research questions and hypotheses, independent and dependent variables         
  3. Three essential steps for classifying educational research designs
  4. How to find and appraise publications in surgical education
  5. Institutional review boards and the surgical education researcher
  6. Teaching and learning about authorship and collaboration
  7. Sampling, sample size determination, and statistical power
  8. Validity: Giving meaning to assessments
  9. Survey designs
  10. The role of qualitative and mixed methods in surgical education research
  11. An overview of surgical education research involving simulation
  12. Data analysis
  13. Funding sources for education research
  14. Academic success as a surgical educator

This practical and highly readable book can be ordered from Ciné-Med at http://cine-med.com/index.php?id=RES100