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Katherine E McDaniel

Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery, Box 3087, Durham, NC 27710
200 Trent Drive, Box 3087, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications


Quantifying the Opportunity Cost of Neurosurgical Resident Education.

Journal Article World Neurosurg · July 2023 BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE: Education is at the core of neurosurgical residency, but little research in to the cost of neurosurgical education exists. This study aimed to quantify costs of resident education in an academic neurosurgery program using traditional ... Full text Link to item Cite

From Their Eyes: What Constitutes Quality Formative Written Feedback for Neurosurgery Residents.

Journal Article J Surg Educ · March 2023 BACKGROUND: The characteristics of quality feedback from the neurosurgery resident's perspective are not fully elucidated. The Surgical Autonomy Program is an intraoperative assessment tool based on Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). SAP facili ... Full text Link to item Cite

Construct validity of the Surgical Autonomy Program for the training of neurosurgical residents.

Journal Article Neurosurg Focus · August 2022 OBJECTIVE: There is no standard way in which physicians teach or evaluate surgical residents intraoperatively, and residents are proving to not be fully competent at core surgical procedures upon graduating. The Surgical Autonomy Program (SAP) is a novel e ... Full text Link to item Cite

The Surgical Autonomy Program: A Pilot Study of Social Learning Theory Applied to Competency-Based Neurosurgical Education.

Journal Article Neurosurgery · March 15, 2021 Over the last decade, strict duty hour policies, pressure for increased work related value units from faculty, and the apprenticeship model of education have coalesced to make opportunities for intraoperative teaching more challenging. Evidence is emerging ... Full text Link to item Cite

Let's Work Together: Interprofessional Training of Health Professionals in North Carolina.

Journal Article N C Med J · 2018 Implementation of interprofessional education efforts at Duke University Health System and the University of North Carolina have enhanced teamwork, education, and mentoring for health professional learners and faculty. The IPE initiatives address the criti ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite