Visual-spatial ability correlates with efficiency of hand motion and successful surgical performance

Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 750-757

  Wanzel, Kyle R ^b   Hamstra, Stanley J ^a   Caminiti, Marco F ^b   Anastakis, Dimitri J ^b   Grober, Ethan D ^b   Reznick, Richard K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MANDIBLE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MODEL; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION; STUDENT; SURGICAL TRAINING; VISION;

EID: 0346874136     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(03)00248-4     Document Type: Article

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