Mission Statement
Classroom of Tomorrow
This state-of-the-art classroom contains twenty learning stations which feature the futuristic concept of CD-ROM education. The multimedia personal computers operated from a unique command module, uses two-way communication for individual tutorials. The instructor can interact separately with each surgeon being trained as the CD-ROM is operated.
CD-ROM Education topics include: The Art of Laparoscopic Suturing, Laparoscopic Hernia Repair, Nissen Fundoplication, and Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.
Inanimate Laboratory
This area contains ten stations designed to provide "hands-on" experience so that surgeons may develop skills in the laparoscopic setting. As featured onthe CBS Morning Show, Discovery Channel, and in Scientific American, surgeons learn how to utilize the surgical equipment operated in the inanimate or dry lab.
Two surgeons per station use laparoscopic instrumentation and equipment to simulate operative procedures. Surgeons also perform a series of dexterity drills created by Dr. Rosser, to aid them in improving or developing their laparoscopic skills.
As part of a continuing effort to increase training without the use of animals and without first learning on patients, the inanimate laboratory features:
~ Video Laparoscopic Training
~ Objective Skill Enhancement Programs
~ Inanimate Cost-Effective Training Modules
~ Robotics and Telepresence Surgery (research and development)
~ Multi-Media Development Laboratory
~ Telementoring
Multimedia Patient Information Center
This facility presents a new concept in educating patients about the surgical procedures that they will undergo. Patients use personal computers and interactive multimedia programs that Dr. Rosser has designed for achieving informed consent before surgery.
Prior to surgery, these patient tutorials help patients to understand as much as possible about the upcoming operation. The user-friendly program has been designed for a variety of patients, including non-readers and older people with a limited education. It may also be adapted for people who speak other languages. The program opens with a digitized video welcome by the patients' physician.
Dr. Rosser has designed a 21st century high-technology, information rich, patient informed consent program.