Importance To better understand the emerging role of artificial intelligence (AI) in surgical
training, efficacy of AI tutoring systems, such as the Virtual Operative Assistant (VOA), must …

In this chapter I have endeavoured to demonstrate the ways in which an approach that takes
the emotions seriously might nuance and complicate our understandings of the history of pre …

Summary William Stewart Halsted developed a novel residency training program at Johns
Hopkins Hospital that, with some modifications, became the model for surgical and medical …

Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel untersucht die Entwicklung der Urologie als eigenständige
medizinische Disziplin in Deutschland mit besonderem Fokus auf die Professionalisierung …

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove
ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons …

Since 2014, public and private insurance coverage for transgender Americans' surgical care
has increased exponentially. Training clinicians and equip** institutions to meet the surge …

In the first half of the twentieth century, the training of American surgeons changed from an
idiosyncratic, often isolated venture to a standardized, regulated, and mandated regimen in …

Maud Menten was born and raised in remote regions of Canada. She obtained her MB/MD
at the University of Toronto (1907/1911) and her PhD in biochemistry at the University of …

This article uses the case of the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) evaluating
laparoscopic cholecystectomy to investigate the introduction of minimally invasive surgery in …

In his revisionist book Bad medicine. Doctors doing harm since Hippocrates, historian David
Wootton1 claims that, by introducing antisepsis with carbolic acid in surgery, Joseph Lister …