Warning! Dangerous curve ahead: The learning curve

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 101-103

  Morgenstern, Leon ^a,b  

^a Center for Health Care Ethics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ACCREDITATION; ADVISORY COMMITTEE; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPETENCE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEARNING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PEER REVIEW; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; LEARNING; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 18144405781     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155335060501200114     Document Type: Article

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