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About PLSC
Defining performance standards for the next generation of surgeons
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 97 training programs at 65 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 MoreBlog
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Help Rename The PLSC
May 22, 2020
We are a quality improvement collaborative. Much of our collective work has been focused on...
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Assessing How we Assess: An Inventory of How We Are Currently Measuring Surgeon Development
Feb 08, 2020
Daniel Kendrick, MD, MAEd, Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery Center for Surgical Training...
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Join the PLSC for Upcoming Town Halls
Apr 05, 2019
The PLSC is excited to announce a series of Town Halls happening during Surgical Education Week...
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In Memory of Reed Williams, PhD
Aug 01, 2018
It is with great sadness that I must report the recent and unexpected passing of Reed Williams,...
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Drafting the Surgical Education "Research Roadmap"
Feb 02, 2018
On January 22nd, 2018, the members of the Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative co-hosted a...
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Annals of Surgery Visual Abstract
Sep 22, 2017
Annals of Surgery Visual Abstract Published 9/22/2017...
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PLSC presents the SIMPL Study Results to the American Board of Surgery
Apr 30, 2017
In January 2015, the American Board of Surgery (ABS) agreed to fund a multi-institutional research...
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SIMPL hits it big at Surgical Education Week
Apr 22, 2017
This year's surgical education week was held in San Diego, CA from 4/18 - 4/22/2017. The SIMPL app was...
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SIMPL Study Data Presented at the Annual Meeting of ASA
Apr 21, 2017
On 4/21/2017 Dr Brian George, representing PLSC, presented some of the major findings of the SIMPL...
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Documenting Readiness for Unsupervised Practice
Mar 16, 2015
Surgeons in teaching hospitals are challenged with balancing their responsibility to patients for...
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PLSC is born!
Jan 02, 2015
We are excited to announce the formation of Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative (PLSC)!...
News
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AHRQ Patient Safety Network
10/9/2017 Readiness of US general surgery residents for independent practice. George BC, Bohnen...
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General Surgery News: App Provides Clues to Resident Competence, Autonomy
7/20/2017 Tool Could Enhance Education ; Are Residents Less Competent or Just More Closely...
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ACS Surgery News: Study identifies gaps in surgical trainees’ readiness
5/4/2017 AT THE ASA ANNUAL MEETING PHILADELPHIA – The question of how prepared general surgery...
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Annals of Surgery Publishes Resident Readiness Research from PLSC National Trial
7/24/2017 Research from the Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative's national trial has been...
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SIMPL Android app is launched!
The SIMPL app has officially been launched for Android! It is available in the Google Play store for...
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SIMPL iOS app is now available!
The SIMPL app has officially been launched for iOS! It is available in the Apple app store for...
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Enrollment begins for multi-institutional trial
This week at the Association for Surgical Education meeting in Seattle, WA, researchers from PLSC...
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PLSC researchers awarded grant from the ABS
January 14th, 2015 Procedural Learning and Safety Collaborative, Inc (PLSC) researchers were this week...
Recent Publications
The Quality of Operative Performance Narrative Feedback
Ahle, Samantha L. MD, MHS Med-Ed; Eskender, Mickyas MD; Schuller, Mary MSEd; Carnes, Emily; Chen, Xilin MPH; Koehler, Jeanne PhD; Willey, Gabrielle MD; Latif, Ahmed; Doyle, Jennifer MA; Wnuk, Gregory MHSA; Fryer, Jonathan P. MD, MHPE; Mellinger, John D. MD; George, Brian C. MD, MAEd. Annals of Surgery:
Using smartphones for trainee performance assessment: A SIMPL case study
Brian C. George MD, MAEd, Jordan D. Bohnen MD, MBA,Mary C. Schuller MS, Jonathan P. Fryer MD, MHPE. Surgery. Volume 167, Issue 6, June 2020, Pages 903-906
Number of Operative Performance Ratings Needed to Reliably Assess the Difficulty of Surgical Procedures
Kenneth L. Abbott MS, Xilin Chen MPH, Michael Clark PhD, Nikki L. Bibler Zaidi PhD, David B. Swanson PhD, Brian C. George MD, MAEd, Journal of Surgical Education, Vol 76 issue 6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsurg.2019.07.008
Assessment of Operative Autonomy and Readiness for Independent Practice Among Pediatric Surgery Fellows
Zendejas B, Lillehei CW, George BC, Modi BP, J Pediatr Surg. 2020 Jan;55(1):117-121. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2019.09.061.
Utilizing a Mobile Application for Evaluation of Procedural Learning in Neurosurgery
Sravanthi Koduri, MD, David B. Altshuler, MD, MS, Siri Sahib S. Khalsa, MD, Cormac O. Maher, MD, Greg Wnuk, MHSA, Doris Tong MD, MSc, FRCPC, Brian C. George, MD, MA, Nicholas Szerlip, MD
