Defining milestones toward competency in mastoidectomy using a skills assessment paradigm

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1417-1421

  Francis, Howard W ^a   Masood, Hamid ^a   Laeeq, Kulsoom ^a   Bhatti, Nasir I ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarks; Case numbers; Competency; Mastoidectomy; Milestones; Objective structured assessment of technical skills; Otolaryngology; Surgical education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MASTOIDECTOMY; OPERATING ROOM; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SKILL; SURGICAL TRAINING;

BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MASTOID; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; PATIENT SIMULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954418318     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20953     Document Type: Article

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