Glossary of Terms
On this page, we will collect common terms that will be used throughout the seven articles. Use the discussion board to suggest, define, or discuss terms to add to the glossary. You can also suggest terms by sending an email to megan@laurelstudio.me. In its final form, this glossary will also be included with the articles.
The latest version of the Glossary and Acronym lists can be found in word document form at the following links:
| Medical Officer | Licensed medical doctor, who serves as a general practitioner and has some basic surgical training. |
| Clinical Officer | A medical professional with 4–5 years of specific training and an internship to take on differing proportions of a physician’s role, depending on the country. May serve as substitutes for physicians in providing health care. Also referred to as Nonphysician Clinician, Associate Clinician, and Midlevel Provider. |
| Provider | A medical professional, who may be a Medical or a Clinical Officer. |
| Task-shifting | The process of redesignating certain clinical tasks and responsibilities (i.e., surgical procedures and pre-operative and post-operative care) to a medical provider with less formal training and fewer formal qualifications. |
| Task-sharing | Training multiple levels of providers to perform the same clinical task or responsibility so that each can take on said task when appropriate. |
| Platform | Technology, in most cases web-based, supporting online modules for training on simulators. |
| Theory of Change | Methodology for planning, participation, adaptive management, and evaluation that is used to promote social change, i.e., to address lack of surgical access. |
| SELF | Surgical Education Learners Forum |
| Trauma | Physical injury |
| Point of care | The location/environment where a patient receives care. |
| Instructor | |
| Anti-skill | Surgical skill that is acquired while using simulation training materials, but must be unlearned in the clinical setting. |
| Low-resource settings | Environment (can be a country/region/district) where medical, economic, and materials resources are scarce. |
| Self-administered assessment | Self-assessment by a surgical trainee or “learner” |
| Learner | Surgical trainee who learns a surgical skill or procedure based on simulation training modules |
| Developer | Individual or group developing simulation modules for surgical training |
| Didactic training | Teacher-centered method of surgical instruction |
| Psychomotor skills | Surgical skills based on the relationship between the surgeon’s cognitive functions and physical movement, such as fine motor skills |
| Simulation training module | For self-administered assessment and training of a surgical trainee; module combines web-based learning and a physical device made from local materials and simulating disordered tissue. |
| Community of Practice | A Community that aims to expand knowledge, capacity and resources related to low-cost, open-source, self-administrable surgical simulation training in low-resource environments. |
| Packages of Care | A set of unique procedures that are frequently performed together to provide complete care to a patient. |
| Practitioner | Medical personnel often performing surgical procedures. |
| NSOAPs | National Surgical, Obstetrical, and Anaesthesia Plans |
Discussion Board
Point of care
Instructor
Anti-skill
Low-resource settings
Community of Practice
packages of care
Practitioner
NSOAPs (National Surgical, Obstetrical, and Anaesthesia Plans)
Should we add “module,” “model,” and “simulator” to the Glossary? Currently, we only have “Simulation training module”
Emilio said to define it as “a set of blended learning materials to develop a skill.”
SELF Data registry