Laparoscopic skills laboratories: Current assessment and a call for resident training standards

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-22

  Korndorffer Jr , James R ^a   Stefanidis, Dimitris ^a   Scott, Daniel J ^a  

^a Tulane Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Laparoscopic skills training; Laparoscopy; Simulator; Surgical education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LABORATORY APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SKILL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUTURING METHOD; TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; LAPAROSCOPY; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; SURGERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TEACHING MATERIALS;

EID: 29944442199     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2005.05.048     Document Type: Article

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