Assessment of technical skills transfer from the bench training model to the human model

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 167-170

  Anastakis, Dimitri J ^a   Regehr, Glenn ^a   Reznick, Richard K ^a   Cusimano, Michael ^a   Murnaghan, John ^a   Brown, Mitchell ^a   Hutchison, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SKILL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING;

CADAVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SURGERY;

EID: 0033059835     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00327-4     Document Type: Article

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