BioSkills Lab Prepares Future Surgeons with Real-World Setting

Baptist Health Orthopedic Care, part of Baptist Health South Florida, is training future surgeons in a real-world environment, so that they are fully prepared before stepping into patient procedures. The BioSkills Lab is an integral part of the Institute’s fellowship program.

“These Fellows come from different (residency programs) from across the country, utilizing different techniques,” said John Uribe, M.D., chief medical executive, Baptist Health Orthopedic Care. “And they’re here to develop and further improve their skills, particularly in arthroscopic surgical techniques.”

Watch video now (Taped in February 2020): The Baptist Health News Team visits the BioSkills Lab and hears from John Uribe, M.D., chief medical executive, Baptist Health Orthopedic Care, and Luis Vargas, M.D., Research & Education Coordinator.)

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[Graphic: Bioskills Lab, Baptist Health Orthopedic Care's Bioskills lab allows orthopedic fellows and surgeons from around the world to train in a simulated setting.]

[Video: Luis Vargas, M.D., Research & Education Coordinator] In 1991 we came up with an
idea to do this Bioskills Lab. The main reason was that it is important for the fellows to learn and do it in such a way safe, that when they go with the surgeon to the OR, they already know exactly the technique and all the important pearls that they need to use when they're doing the surgery on a patient.

[Video: John Uribe, M.D., Chief Medical Executive, Baptist Health Orthopedic Care, Director of Research & Education] Yeah, this is our Bioskills training lab. We use it for obviously for our own surgical skills training. If we have a difficult case we will practice it here, newer techniques.

[Dr Vargas] For us is we use the same materials that we use down there in the OR, same equipment, same technology, so at the end they feel comfortable when they go to the OR to do the same procedure on patients.

[Dr Uribe] We train surgeons and these fellows come from different residencies, from across the country, utilizing different techniques and they're here to develop and further improve their skills, particularly in arthroscopic surgical techniques.

[Dr Vargas] We try to avoid any problems in the future, so they go here and learn the technique with the patient and all the cubicles, that way their brain is now trained, so when they go to the OR, they're gonna be now in that safe zone, understanding the particular anatomy and all the little, the points that they need to be using in the surgery. As a sports medicine fellowship program, we try to train our
fellows in knee surgery, shoulder, elbow, and ankle.

Lately, we're trying to push also the hip, because it's been something very important in the last decade, people understanding how it's crucial for the fellow to learn about specifically the hip.

Doctor's come, spend two weeks with us. They come to the lab three or four times a week and they go down to the OR, see what we're doing, come back here and do the same procedure, with all the implants, all the instruments, the same whether we're doing it down there.

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