SIMPL OR vs RTQA Surgical CVS

SIMPL: System for Improving and Measuring Procedural Learning makes it feasible to evaluate residents after every procedure they perform. The SIMPL app, used by residents and faculty, is designed from the ground up for efficiency and ease of use while still providing meaningful evaluation data. Each evaluation consists of 3 questions plus the option to dictate formative feedback. Aggregated evaluation data is accessible to faculty who can use it to see how much experience a resident has with any given procedure or with a group of procedures. This knowledge can, in turn, serve to inform a conversation with the resident prior to each operation so as to better individualize both teaching and supervision in the operating room.

This application is designed to help train medical students in evaluating Laproscopic Cholesystectomy preparations and potentially other surgical preparations by allowing them to score the preparation from a captured high resolution image or images compared with the score from a panel of experts grading the same image. Notifications and real time scoring facilitate immediate peer QA feedback. This application allows surgeons to record and grade critical view of safety images during laparoscopic cholecystectomy cases. Users can upload images from a case for review by other surgeons. Additionally, users will be able to grade other cases posted to the application.