Telementoring: An important enabling tool for the community surgeon

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 327-331

  Sebajang, Herawaty ^a,b   Trudeau, Patrick ^c   Dougall, Al ^a   Hegge, Susan ^a   McKinley, Craig ^a   Anvari, Mehran ^b,d  

^a North Bay District Hospital   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Research Unit   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community surgeons; Laparoscopic procedures; Telementoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTESTINE RESECTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; OPEN REDUCTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH FUNDOPLICATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SURGICAL TRAINING; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEMEDICINE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; EDUCATION, DISTANCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MENTORS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

EID: 32044455087     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/155335060501200407     Document Type: Article

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