Primer: Cognitive motor learning for teaching surgical skill-how are surgical skills taught and assessed?

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-54

  Wong, Jaime A ^a   Matsumoto, Edward D ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CURRICULUM; JOB PERFORMANCE; LEARNING STYLE; LICENSING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TRAINING; TECHNICAL AID; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COGNITION; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; HUMANS; LEARNING; SURGERY; TEACHING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 38049161525     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0991     Document Type: Review

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