An innovative method for the assessment of skills in lower gastrointestinal endoscopy

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1613-1619

  Moorthy, K ^a   Munz, Y ^a   Orchard, T R ^a   Gould, S ^a   Rockall, T ^a   Darzi, A ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal endoscopy; Sigmoidoscopy; Skills assessment; Surgical training; Virutal reality simulator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ERGONOMICS; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATOR; SKILL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 27144469354     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-004-9002-y     Document Type: Article

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