Pam Choi

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Colorectal / ARM & Hirschsprung · guest expert Congenital Lung Lesions (CPAM) · guest expert Fetal Surgery · guest expert

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Despite appearing to be a superficial form of entertainment, escape room can be grounded in a sound educational theory. And when used effectively acts as a low-cost high effect resource for a variety of learners.
quote · Preeclampsia
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what matters is not the timing of surgery, you know, it depends whether the patient has unilateral cryptochism or bilateral cryptochism or if their testis is palpable or impalpable.
▶ Ep 3 · 0:25
Medical education has changed focus to a more learner-centered model. Placing learners at the center of innovation in training and over the past two decades.
quote · Preeclampsia
▶ Ep 6 · 9:25
Patient wristbands, especially for young patients like children and babies, can create problems: they are difficult to fasten, may irritate the skin, must be rotated to be scanned, can be too tight causing pain or too loose causing loss.
clinical · Sepsis
▶ Ep 6 · 2:01
Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands, University of Kansas Health System, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and University of Minnesota have built medical escape rooms to improve education among trainees.
clinical · Sepsis
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
What matters is not the timing of surgery, it depends whether the patient has unilateral cryptorchidism or bilateral cryptorchidism or if their testis is palpable or impalpable.
clinical · Cryptorchidism

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CAPS - Educational Outcomes in School Age Children with a History of Hirschsprung’s Disease - Michael Cowap

▶ Ep 124 · 3:34
opinion Neurodevelopmental outcomes are just as important to parents as what surgeons do directly in the operating room ↗
▶ Ep 124 · 3:34
quote So often as surgeons, we have only been focused on the problem that we're going to be addressing um in the operating room. When we know that these diseases are so much bigger than that. ↗
▶ Ep 124 · 3:34
quote I was so pleased when I could actually reference this presentation and this paper to try to alleviate some of their fears. ↗
▶ Ep 124 · 3:34
quote We all need to remember that even as surgeons that neurodevelopmental outcomes are just as important to parents as what we do directly in the operating room. ↗
▶ Ep 124 · 5:29
clinical The standardized tests are standardized within each province ↗
Pam's statements about Cryptorchidism 7 statements

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Age at Orchiopexy JPS Review

▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
clinical What matters is not the timing of surgery, it depends whether the patient has unilateral cryptorchidism or bilateral cryptorchidism or if their testis is palpable or impalpable. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
clinical In a Lancet study, 142 adults who had orchiopexy between ages 7 and 13 years were examined for semen analysis. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
clinical Semen analysis was normal or acceptable in patients who had unilateral cryptorchidism. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
clinical Patients who had bilateral palpable testes in the superficial pouch had semen which was normal or acceptable. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
clinical Patients who had bilateral impalpable testes (either in the abdomen or canalicular) were all azoospermic. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
quote what matters is not the timing of surgery, you know, it depends whether the patient has unilateral cryptochism or bilateral cryptochism or if their testis is palpable or impalpable. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
quote what the future research should be, I think we need to examine semen in patients who have had a bilateral impalpable testes and have had the operation done before the age of one year. ↗
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Journal of Pediatric Surgery Article Review: The Disruption Score

▶ Ep 8 · 8:32
quote I was because I was like, what about this paper? What about this paper? Like this is the basis of how we do ped surgery. ↗
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Disruptive technologies in medical education: escape rooms, virtual reality, and gamification

▶ Ep 3 · 0:25
quote Medical education has changed focus to a more learner-centered model. Placing learners at the center of innovation in training and over the past two decades. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 0:25
opinion Medical education has changed focus to a more learner-centered model, placing learners at the center of innovation in training over the past two decades. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 0:43
quote Escape Room is a time-bound immersive adventure experience. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 1:03
clinical Escape room exercises help healthcare teams develop and enhance communication, teamwork, and resilience skills, as well as reinforce medical knowledge. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 1:35
quote Despite appearing to be a superficial form of entertainment, escape room can be grounded in a sound educational theory. And when used effectively acts as a low-cost high effect resource for a variety of learners. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 1:35
opinion When used effectively, escape rooms act as a low-cost high effect resource for a variety of learners. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 2:01
clinical Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands, University of Kansas Health System, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and University of Minnesota have built medical escape rooms to improve education among trainees. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 2:36
clinical Virtual reality is a simulated 3D environment that allows users to explore and interact with virtual surroundings in a way that looks like reality. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 3:07
clinical Thumbay Group from Dubai, UAE is the first to build a virtual hospital on a metaverse to interact with patients and improve patient experience. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 3:17
clinical The virtual hospital provides patients with immersive healthcare experience from patient experience center to complete hospital walkthrough and services, allowing consultation via virtual headsets. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 3:56
clinical VR can be used to ease anxiety before procedures or during imaging, help pain post-operatively, and in some cases reduce the need for sedation or general anesthesia during minor surgical procedures. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 4:34
clinical The Childhood Anxiety Reduction through Innovation and Technology program (Chariot) at Stanford aims to take existing technologies and create new ones to address unique needs of individual patients. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 5:02
clinical Gamification is the application of typical elements of game playing to other areas of activities, especially tasks that are not enjoyable, to encourage engagement with a product or service. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 6:57
clinical Precision OS creates surgical simulations to accelerate skill acquisition and surgical readiness, with VR learning partnerships at 29 medical institutions in North America including University of Connecticut, University of Toronto, and University of British Columbia. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 7:55
clinical Surgeons used VR to separate twins with conjoined heads in a 27-hour long surgery, spending hours training using VR projection with Precision OS Envision while wearing an Oculus VR headset. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 9:25
clinical Patient wristbands, especially for young patients like children and babies, can create problems: they are difficult to fasten, may irritate the skin, must be rotated to be scanned, can be too tight causing pain or too loose causing loss. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 9:54
clinical Identity Shield is a smart ID sticker to replace hospital wristbands, RFID enabled with an optical scanning option. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 10:17
clinical RFID stands for radio frequency identification and uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 10:53
clinical Northwell Health, New York state's largest healthcare system, used the Identity Shield badge on over 30,000 patients between October 2019 and November 2020, mostly at Lenox Health Hospital in New York City during the pandemic. ↗
▶ Ep 3 · 11:27
clinical NFC stands for near field communications, a set of communication protocols enabling communication between two electronic devices, with interaction limited to an extremely short range of 4 centimeters or an inch and a half or less. ↗
Pam's statements about Sepsis 20 statements

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Disruptive technologies in medical education: escape rooms, virtual reality, and gamification

▶ Ep 6 · 0:25
opinion Medical education has changed focus to a more learner-centered model, placing learners at the center of innovation in training over the past two decades. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 0:25
quote Medical education has changed focus to a more learner-centered model. Placing learners at the center of innovation in training and over the past two decades. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 0:43
quote Escape Room is a time-bound immersive adventure experience. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 1:03
clinical Escape room exercises help healthcare teams develop and enhance communication, teamwork, and resilience skills, as well as reinforce medical knowledge. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 1:35
quote Despite appearing to be a superficial form of entertainment, escape room can be grounded in a sound educational theory. And when used effectively acts as a low-cost high effect resource for a variety of learners. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 1:35
opinion When used effectively, escape rooms act as a low-cost high effect resource for a variety of learners. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 2:01
clinical Texas Children's Hospital The Woodlands, University of Kansas Health System, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, and University of Minnesota have built medical escape rooms to improve education among trainees. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 2:36
clinical Virtual reality is a simulated 3D environment that allows users to explore and interact with virtual surroundings in a way that looks like reality. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 3:07
clinical Thumbay Group from Dubai, UAE is the first to build a virtual hospital on a metaverse to interact with patients and improve patient experience. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 3:17
clinical The virtual hospital provides patients with immersive healthcare experience from patient experience center to complete hospital walkthrough and services, allowing consultation via virtual headsets. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 3:56
clinical VR can be used to ease anxiety before procedures or during imaging, help pain post-operatively, and in some cases reduce the need for sedation or general anesthesia during minor surgical procedures. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 4:34
clinical The Childhood Anxiety Reduction through Innovation and Technology program (Chariot) at Stanford aims to take existing technologies and create new ones to address unique needs of individual patients. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 5:02
clinical Gamification is the application of typical elements of game playing to other areas of activities, especially tasks that are not enjoyable, to encourage engagement with a product or service. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 6:57
clinical Precision OS creates surgical simulations to accelerate skill acquisition and surgical readiness, with VR learning partnerships at 29 medical institutions in North America including University of Connecticut, University of Toronto, and University of British Columbia. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 7:55
clinical Surgeons used VR to separate twins with conjoined heads in a 27-hour long surgery, spending hours training using VR projection with Precision OS Envision while wearing an Oculus VR headset. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 9:25
clinical Patient wristbands, especially for young patients like children and babies, can create problems: they are difficult to fasten, may irritate the skin, must be rotated to be scanned, can be too tight causing pain or too loose causing loss. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 9:54
clinical Identity Shield is a smart ID sticker to replace hospital wristbands, RFID enabled with an optical scanning option. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 10:17
clinical RFID stands for radio frequency identification and uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 10:53
clinical Northwell Health, New York state's largest healthcare system, used the Identity Shield badge on over 30,000 patients between October 2019 and November 2020, mostly at Lenox Health Hospital in New York City during the pandemic. ↗
▶ Ep 6 · 11:27
clinical NFC stands for near field communications, a set of communication protocols enabling communication between two electronic devices, with interaction limited to an extremely short range of 4 centimeters or an inch and a half or less. ↗
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CAPS - Educational Outcomes in School Age Children with a History of Hirschsprung’s Disease - Michael Cowap

▶ Ep 4 · 3:34
quote We all need to remember that even as surgeons that neurodevelopmental outcomes are just as important to parents as what we do directly in the operating room. ↗
▶ Ep 4 · 3:34
quote I was so pleased when I could actually reference this presentation and this paper to try to alleviate some of their fears. ↗
▶ Ep 4 · 3:34
quote So often as surgeons, we have only been focused on the problem that we're going to be addressing um in the operating room. When we know that these diseases are so much bigger than that. ↗
▶ Ep 4 · 3:34
opinion Neurodevelopmental outcomes are just as important to parents as what surgeons do directly in the operating room ↗
▶ Ep 4 · 5:29
clinical The standardized tests are standardized within each province ↗
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Age at Orchiopexy JPS Review

▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
clinical What matters is not the timing of surgery, it depends whether the patient has unilateral cryptorchidism or bilateral cryptorchidism or if their testis is palpable or impalpable. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
clinical In a Lancet study, 142 adults who had orchiopexy between ages 7 and 13 years were examined for semen analysis. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
clinical Semen analysis was normal or acceptable in patients who had unilateral cryptorchidism. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
quote what the future research should be, I think we need to examine semen in patients who have had a bilateral impalpable testes and have had the operation done before the age of one year. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
clinical Patients who had bilateral impalpable testes (either in the abdomen or canalicular) were all azoospermic. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
quote what matters is not the timing of surgery, you know, it depends whether the patient has unilateral cryptochism or bilateral cryptochism or if their testis is palpable or impalpable. ↗
▶ Ep 2 · 2:19
clinical Patients who had bilateral palpable testes in the superficial pouch had semen which was normal or acceptable. ↗