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Baystate Surgery-Chamberlain Group Surgery Training System Awarded the John Adams Innovations Institute Regional Priority Grant

Wedding Physical Model to Curriculum is a Breakthrough in Surgical Residency Training

Prototype of Tactility Surgical Learning System: Open Bowel One

As more surgery is performed laparoscopically, opportunities to teach residents basic open surgery skill sets, such as those involved in intestinal anastomosis, are lacking. Baystate Surgery has partnered with the Chamberlain Group, a small, Great Barrington-based business that produces non-biological simulation tissues, to develop the Tactility Surgical Learning System (TSLS): Open Bowel One. TSLS is an inanimate, intestinal anastomosis model and accompanying curriculum that will help residents build their skills in basic, traditional hand-sewn surgical procedures.

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New Clinical Trials Support Program Offers Resources to Principal Investigators

Assistance With Research Activities Available

Academic Affairs has created the Clinical Trials Support Program in order to provide resources to Principal Investigators of both investigator-initiated or sponsored clinical trials who need assistance on a short term, intermittent, or less than full-time basis.

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Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care Group Starting in January 2009

Featured Authors Include Chekhov, Tolstoy, Williams, Carver and Moore

Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Health Care is a national award-winning, hospital-based, reading and discussion program for health care professionals that benefits both them and their patients by improving their communication and interpersonal skills.

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