Hot Topics from the Annals of Surgery Ep. 1: Robotic Surgery

Behind The Knife: The Surgery Podcast

Science, Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This new series will be a collaboration between BTK and Annals of Surgery, where we will be discussing hot topics in surgery research. No, we won’t be getting into the nitty gritty of methods of individual papers but rather will focus on high-level discussions of contemporary topics that are moving our field forward.

Hosts:

Cody Mullens, MD is a general surgery resident at the University of Michigan, current Behind the Knife Surgery Education Fellow. (@Cody_Mullens)

Justin B. Dimick, MD MPH is the Fredrick A Coller Distinguished Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of Michigan. He also serves as the Editor in Chief at Annals of Surgery. (@jdimick1)

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0:00.0	Behind the Knife, the Surgery Podcast.
0:09.1	Relevant and engaging content designed to help you dominate the day.
0:24.1	Thanks for listening to Behind the Knife.
0:27.4	This is Patrick Georgoff, and I want to share an important message.
0:30.5	Our oral board review kicks ass.
0:35.0	We have over 100 scenarios with top-notch commentary to get you prepared for the exam,
0:38.8	or maybe even just prepare for your next rotation. We're also adding over 30 new scenarios this fall and a brand new interactive video feature so that you can
0:43.4	practice for the real thing. Get quick and easy access via our app for on the go use. It's still the
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0:53.3	available.
0:56.7	Now, enjoy the episode and dominate the day.
0:58.8	Hello, behind the knife listeners.
1:01.3	This is Cody, one of the Surgery Education fellows.
1:05.0	We're excited to be bringing you a new series here at BTK. There will be some regularly scheduled conversations with the editor-in-chief of annals of surgery, Dr. Justin Demick,
1:11.7	where we'll be discussing contemporary research topics. Now, before I scare anybody off talking
1:17.0	about research, we're not going to be debating primary endpoints for clinical trials or causal
1:22.1	inference methods or any of the nitty-gritty stuff. These are going to be higher-level
1:26.6	conversations that are at a 30,000-foot
1:28.9	view about contemporary hot topics and research in the field of surgery. For example, in today's
1:35.3	episode, we will be talking about robotic surgery. We're excited about this new partnership,
1:40.3	and hope you all enjoy the episode and the others that are to come. Thanks, Dr. Dimmick, for joining us today.
1:46.2	Dr. Justin Dimmick is the Frederick A. Collar Professor and Chair of Surgery at the University of Michigan
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