Surgical residents have 80 hours a week. Where does the time actually go?
A viral Reddit thread about general surgery residency exposes a deeper tension between service demands, documentation and the operative experience residents need to develop.
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Surgeons want more operative video for teaching. So what’s stopping them?
The obstacle was never the value of video. It was the time, the editing and the uncertainty about where the footage ends up.
Why a small nasal tip defect can become a big reconstructive problem
The bilobed flap works because it recruits mobility from the upper nose while keeping tension away from the tip and alar rim.
This seed-sized robot packs five surgical functions into 4.4 millimeters
Researchers at NTU Singapore designed the millimeter-scale robot to switch between cutting, drug delivery, tissue collection and localized heating in under a second.
A 30-minute laser fix for the wound that used to take months to heal
Traditional excision leaves a wound that heals for months and recurs in up to a third of cases; this minimally invasive laser technique aims to replace it.
The part of robotic surgery no one was measuring
A live-OR study found that surgeons’ brain activity, shoulder tension, heart rate and heart-rate variability changed with perceived stress at the console.
What your eyes reveal about surgical expertise
Macquarie researchers found that visual expertise leaves a measurable gaze pattern, one an AI model could classify with more than 93 percent accuracy.
The surgeon you never scrubbed with
Standing beside another surgeon has always been one of the oldest ways to learn an operation. Peer-reviewed operative videos are extending that experience far beyond a single operating room.
The day someone finally handed you the scalpel
A review of surgeons' firsthand accounts, and the research behind them, reveals why that moment stays with us for the rest of our careers.
One detail made this quadruple-organ transplant a bit more complicated
The patient needed a second bilateral lung transplant, along with a liver and kidney, a combination never before reported in the United States.