Developing and testing competency levels for laparoscopic skills training

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 80-84

  Korndorffer, James R ^a   Scott, Daniel J ^a,b   Sierra, Rafael ^a   Brunner, William C ^a   Dunne, J Bruce ^a   Slakey, Douglas P ^a   Townsend, Michael C ^a   Hewitt, Robert L ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 12144281953     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.140.1.80     Document Type: Review

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