Technical Skills Rotation for General Surgery Residents1

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 179-182

  Gonzalez, Ray I ^a   Martinez, Jose M ^a   Iglesias, Alberto R ^a   Lo Menzo, Emanuele ^a   Hutson, Duane ^a   Sleeman, Danny ^a   Livingstone, Alan S ^a   Madan, Atul K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

box trainers; clinical rotation; inanimate trainers; resident education; technical skills; virtual reality trainers

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; RESPONSIBILITY; SKILL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FAMILY PRACTICE; GENERAL SURGERY; HERNIA; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEPHRECTOMY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SWINE; TEACHING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77951939588     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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