Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative (PLSC) is a non-profit educational quality improvement consortium focused on investigating and developing tools, curriculum, and policy to improve the training of surgical and other procedural physicians. The collaborative was founded by experts in surgical trainee performance assessment with the initial support of Massachusetts General Hospital, Northwestern University, and Indiana University. Since initiating the SIMPL trial in July 2015, the consortium has grown substantially and currently includes 82 training programs at 56 institutions across the United States. We are funded by our institutional members and grants. Our passion is to investigate and combine innovative curricula, best-practice evaluation methodology, and state-of-the-art technology to improve the training of residents in Surgery and other procedural specialties.
Read MoreThe PLSC is excited to announce a series of Town Halls happening during Surgical Education Week...
It is with great sadness that I must report the recent and unexpected passing of Reed Williams,...
On January 22nd, 2018, the members of the Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative co-hosted a...
Annals of Surgery Visual Abstract Published 9/22/2017...
In January 2015, the American Board of Surgery (ABS) agreed to fund a multi-institutional research...
This year's surgical education week was held in San Diego, CA from 4/18 - 4/22/2017. The SIMPL app was...
On 4/21/2017 Dr Brian George, representing PLSC, presented some of the major findings of the SIMPL...
Surgeons in teaching hospitals are challenged with balancing their responsibility to patients for...
We are excited to announce the formation of Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative (PLSC)!...
10/9/2017 Readiness of US general surgery residents for independent practice. George BC, Bohnen...
7/20/2017 Tool Could Enhance Education ; Are Residents Less Competent or Just More Closely...
5/4/2017 AT THE ASA ANNUAL MEETING PHILADELPHIA – The question of how prepared general surgery...
7/24/2017 Research from the Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative's national trial has been...
The SIMPL app has officially been launched for Android! It is available in the Google Play store for...
The SIMPL app has officially been launched for iOS! It is available in the Apple app store for...
This week at the Association for Surgical Education meeting in Seattle, WA, researchers from PLSC...
January 14th, 2015 Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative, Inc (PLSC) researchers were this week...
Herbert P. Stride, Brian C. George, Reed G. Williams, Jordan D. Bohnen, Megan J. Eaton, Mary C. Schuller, Lihui Zhao, Amy Yang, Shari L. Meyerson, Rebecca Scully, Gary L. Dunnington, Laura Torbeck, John T. Mullen, Samuel P. Mandell, Michael Choti, Eugene Foley, Chandrakanth Are, Edward Auyang, Jeffrey Chipman, Jennifer Choi, Andreas Meier, Douglas Smink, Kyla P. Terhune, Paul Wise, Debra DaRosa, Nathaniel Soper, Jay B. Zwischenberger, Keith Lillemoe, Jonathan P. Fryer
Kobraei EM, Bohnen JD, George BC, Mullen JT, Lillemoe KD, Austen WG Jr, Liao EC. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2016 Aug;138(2):349e-57e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000002411.
Brown, JW Cardiol Young. 2016 Dec;26(8):1484-1490. doi: 10.1017/S1047951116002420.
Kaban LB, Cappetta A, George BC, Lahey ET, Bohnen JD, Troulis MJ. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2017 Oct;75(10):2041-2047. doi: 10.1016/j.joms.2017.05.036. Epub 2017 Jun 8.
Williams RG, Swanson DB, Fryer JP, Meyerson SL, Bohnen JD, Dunnington GL, Scully RE, Schuller MC, George BC. Ann Surg. 2019 Feb;269(2):377-382. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002554.