Clementines and pelvic anatomy are two things you probably wouldn’t ever talk about in the same sentence, unless you’re Pamela Andreatta.
Andreatta, a medical educator at the University of Michigan Medical School, knows all about how people learn. And lately, she’s been spending a lot of time scrutinizing how residents are taught to do minimally invasive surgery.
In particular, she’s been looking at how doctors master laparoscopic surgery, performed with a camera and surgical instruments inserted through tiny incisions in the body.
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