CIRUS · Teaching
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Teaching & surgical education
A living academic space for students, residents, surgeons and educators: short courses, clinical reasoning, research methodology, evidence-based medicine, bioethics and surgical culture.
Choose your path
What are you looking for?
Medical students
Semiology, clinical reasoning, cases, research and bioethics.
Surgical residents
Decision-making, technique, complications, VATS and laparoscopy.
Surgeons & educators
Evidence, methodology, scientific writing and medical education.
CIRUS Classroom · Short courses
Learn something useful in less than an hour
Compact modules designed to be completed in 20–60 minutes, with key concepts, practical application and essential references.
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Pulmonary nodule: first approach
Risk, imaging features and decision framework.
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Principles of pleural drainage
Indications, technique and common errors.
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From PICO to a research protocol
Turn a clinical doubt into a researchable question.
Daily surgical curiosity
One surgical idea every day
The same daily educational piece shared by 2 Cirujanos del Cibao on WhatsApp also becomes part of this teaching archive: history, prevention, diseases, people and surprising facts from surgery.
Daily items are currently published primarily in Spanish.
Learn from decisions, not only from facts
Clinical case of the week
What would you do next?
Cases designed to make you choose, justify and then compare your reasoning with evidence and expert discussion.
One paper in 5 minutes
What did the study really show?
Question, methods, main results, limitations and what changes—or does not change—in clinical practice.
Method in 10 minutes
From a clinical question to a scientific paper
PICO · study design · literature search · bias · statistics · PRISMA/STROBE/CONSORT · manuscript writing · journal selection · peer-review response.
CIRUS
Research, education and surgical innovation
CIRUS integrates teaching with research, evidence-based practice, innovation and minimally invasive surgery. The goal is not only to transmit information, but to improve the way clinical problems are reasoned, decisions are made and evidence is produced.