Simon Turner

Term Asst Prof, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Post Grad Medical Education

Contact

Term Asst Prof, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Post Grad Medical Education
Email
sturner@ualberta.ca

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

competency assessment competency based medical education Thoracic surgery surgical education lung cancer Invasive Mediastinal Staging stigma


About

Dr. Simon Turner is the Tom Williams Endowed Chair in Surgical Education. He is an Associate Professor in the Division of Thoracic Surgery, where he holds the positions of Research Director and Residency Program Director. He is also the Chair of the General Surgery Competence Committee. Dr. Turner’s research focuses on competence assessment and other aspects of surgical education, as well as clinical research in thoracic oncology. 


Research

Active Research:

1.     Competency Assessment Tools in Thoracic Surgery-developing instruments to assess surgical trainees’ ability to perform core operations in thoracic surgery. 

2.     Novel Strategies in Mediastinal Staging for Lung Cancer-using blood tests and new ultrasound scoring systems to assess the risk of cancer spread to lymph nodes in patients with lung cancer. 

3.     Lung Cancer Stigma-examining the qualitative experiences of patients with lung cancer.

4.     Simulation in Cardiac Surgery-Development of patient-specific simulators for common operations in cardiac surgery.

 

Courses

EDHS 508 - Assessment in Health Sciences II

Priority given to graduate students in the Master of Education in Health Sciences Education program. This course focuses on applying educational assessment theory to inform context-specific assessment design, implementation, and evaluation. Sections are offered at an increased rate of fee assessment.


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Featured Publications

Jogiat U.M., Sun W.Y.L., Dang J.T., Mocanu V., Kung J.Y., Karmali S., Turner S.R., Switzer N.J.

SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES. 2022 July; 36 (7):5398-5407 10.1007/s00464-021-08866-4


Sullivan K.A., Farrokhyar F., Leontiadis G.I., Patel Y.S., Churchill I.F., Hylton D.A., Xie F., Seely A.J.E., Spicer J., Kidane B., Turner S.R., Yasufuku K., Hanna W.C.

JOURNAL OF THORACIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY. 2022 July; 164 (1):254-261.e1 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2021.11.062


White A., Muller Moran H.R., Ryan J., Mador B., Campbell S., Turner S.R.

Journal of Surgical Education. 2022 July; 79 (4):1016-1023 10.1016/j.jsurg.2022.02.014


Turner SR, Louie BE, Molena D, Dunst C, Bedard ELR

Foregut. 2022 March; 2 (1):18-27 https://doi.org/10.1177%2F26345161221081041


Jogiat U., Mocanu V., Birch D.W., Switzer N.J., Turner S.R., Karmali S.

OBESITY SURGERY. 2022 March; 32 (3):696-703 10.1007/s11695-021-05882-0


Ryan J.F., Mador B., Lai K., Campbell S., Hyakutake M., Turner S.R.

Annals of Surgery. 2022 March; 275 (3):482-487 10.1097/SLA.0000000000005207


Luc J.G.Y., Reddy R.M., Corsini E.M., Carrott P.W., David E.A., Shemanski K., Fabian T., McCarthy D.P., Okereke I., Oliver A.L., Turner S.R., Vaporciyan A.A., Antonoff M.B.

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2021 December; 33 (4):1158-1168 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2021.02.025


Mador B., Daniels V.J., Oswald A., Turner S.R.

Medical Science Educator. 2021 December; 31 (6):2061-2064 10.1007/s40670-021-01380-1


Nasralla A., Turner S.R.

Mediastinum. 2021 December; 5 10.21037/MED-21-48


Nasralla A., Laing B., Turner S.R.

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 2021 December; 16 (1) 10.1186/s13019-021-01619-3


Turner S.R., Mador B., Lai H., White J., Kim M.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SURGERY. 2021 December; 222 (6):1139-1145 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2021.01.045


White A., Singh G., Moon M.C., Zheng B., Turner S.R.

CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY. 2021 October; 37 (10):1639-1643 10.1016/j.cjca.2021.04.020


Hylton D.A., Kidane B., Spicer J., Turner S., Churchill I., Sullivan K., Finley C.J., Shargall Y., Agzarian J., Seely A.J.E., Yasufuku K., Hanna W.C.

CHEST. 2021 June; 159 (6):2470-2476 10.1016/j.chest.2020.12.050