we are currently accepting residents, fellows, undergraduate and graduate students to work on projects in toronto.
applicants should:
- be interested in learning more about sensory-motor integration, skill acquisition and/or expert performance
- have at least one upper year undergraduate statistics course
- be computer literate
- have excellent attention to detail
students with backgrounds in clinical engineering, human factors, motor learning or education are particularly encouraged to apply
current projects include:
new methods for evaluating technical skills
we are developing a new suite of tools to allow us to more effectively evaluate proficiency levels in surgical trainees. prospective residents/students would have the opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary team to help develop and validate new methods for evaluating skill acquisition and learning, as well as helping to establish markers of ‘typical’ performance.
optimizing skill acquisition
we are taking recent advances in the sport sciences (specifically in the fields of motor learning and control) and applying them to inform and improve the way that residents are trained. prospective students would be exposed to current models of motor control and would gain insight into models of learning, and how these models can be applied to surgical education.
sensory-motor interactions
we study how the auditory, visual and motor systems interact with each other under varying cognitive load in an effort to better understand the processes which support the learning and execution of complex skills. prospective students will be exposed to several models of perception and action, and will gain a strong grounding in basic scientific research.
attention studies
we examine how attentional resources are allocated at various stages in the surgical training process. prospective students will gain experience in models of attention, memory and learning, and a strong understanding of research methods.
for more information, please contact us