Inside the Surgical Skills Center at Stony Brook Medicine

The Surgical Skills Center at Stony Brook Medicine was established by the Department of Surgery in January 2011 to provide a leading-edge training experience for all surgery residents. The center is located at the heart of Stony Brook University Hospital, in close proximity to clinical care areas and operating room suites, providing an ideal environment for advanced surgical education.

Our simulation curriculum focuses on the development of surgical and clinical skills early on in the training process, while the emphasis at senior levels of training is on the development of leadership skills, effective communication and collaboration, practice building skills, critical assessment of patient safety issues, and thorough understanding of systems-based problems and quality assurance issues.

For more information about surgical residency training at Stony Brook Medicine, please visit our website at www.medicine.stonybrookmedicine.edu/surgery.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to ThreeVillagePatch for the production of this 2011 video and permission for us to use it on the StonyBrookSurgery channel.