The new ACS/APDS skills curriculum: Moving the learning curve out of the operating room

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 213-221

  Scott, Daniel J ^a   Dunnington, Gary L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ACS APDS skills curriculum; Competency; Proficiency based training; Simulation; Skills laboratories; Surgical education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; SURGERY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRICULUM; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LAPAROSCOPY; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PATIENT SIMULATION; PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTION AS TOPIC; SURGERY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEACHING;

EID: 47749115419     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-007-0357-y     Document Type: Article

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