Hueylan Chern

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Hueylan Chern is a surgeon-educator whose research sits at the intersection of robotic surgery and surgical training, with a particular focus on designing and implementing comprehensive curricula that prepare the next generation of surgeons for the robotic operating room. Her most-cited work, "Current robotic curricula for surgery residents" (2017, 41 citations), identified critical gaps in cognitive and psychomotor training, laying the groundwork for her landmark 2021 paper "Transforming Surgical Education through a Resident Robotic Curriculum" (39 citations), which offered a systematic, institutionally tested framework for robotic surgical education. Chern has also explored the unique pedagogical challenges of teaching in robotic environments, including how surgeons process visual information without haptic feedback, and extended her educational work to medical students through feasibility studies of simulation-based robotic training. On the clinical side, she has contributed meaningfully to minimally invasive colorectal surgery, including robotic transanal excision of rectal lesions and early investigations into single-port robotic colectomy. With over 170 cumulative citations and research spanning curriculum design, observational learning, and emerging surgical platforms, Chern has established herself as a leading voice in the evolving landscape of surgical education and robotic innovation.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Current robotic curricula for surgery residents: A need for additional cognitive and psychomotor focus

   41 citations · 2017
2. 2
   Transforming Surgical Education through a Resident Robotic Curriculum

   39 citations · 2021
3. 3
   Teaching in the robotic environment: Use of alternative approaches to guide operative instruction

   24 citations · 2019
4. 4
   Robotic training for medical students: feasibility of a pilot simulation curriculum

   17 citations · 2022
5. 5
   Robotic transanal excision of rectal lesions: expert perspective and literature review

   14 citations · 2022
6. 6
   Microanalysis of video from a robotic surgical procedure: implications for observational learning in the robotic environment

   9 citations · 2018
7. 7
   Comparison of advanced techniques for local excision of rectal lesions: a case series

   8 citations · 2022
8. 8
   Confronting new challenges: Faculty perceptions of gaps in current laparoscopic curricula in a changing training landscape

   8 citations · 2023
9. 9
   Is Robotic Surgery Highlighting Critical Gaps in Resident Training?

   8 citations · 2018
10. 10
    Initial Experience With Single-Port Robotic Right Colectomies: Results of an Investigator-Initiated Investigational Device Exemption Study Using a Novel Single-Port Robotic Platform

    6 citations · 2024

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