Learning and teaching advanced laparoscopic procedures: Do alternating trainees impair a laparoscopic surgeon's learning curve?

Journal of Minimally Invasive Gynecology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 293-299

  Fleisch, Markus C ^a,b   Newton, J ^a   Steinmetz, Ina ^a,c   Whitehair, Jennifer ^a   Hallum, Alton ^a   Hatch, Kenneth D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Laparoscopy; LASS; Residents; Survival; Training

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HEIGHT; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LEARNING; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESIDENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; TEACHING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARIZONA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GERMANY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEACHING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247620322     PISSN: 15534650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmig.2006.10.012     Document Type: Article

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