The use of a lightly preserved cadaver and full thickness pig skin to teach technical skills on the surgery clerkship - A response to the economic pressures facing academic medicine today

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 162-166

  Dimaggio, Paul J ^a   Waer, Amy L ^a   Desmarais, Thomas J ^a   Sozanski, Jesse ^a   Timmerman, Hannah ^a   Lopez, Joshua A ^a   Poskus, Diane M ^a   Tatum, Joshua ^a   Adamas Rappaport, William J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadaveric models; Surgical education; Technical skills laboratory

Indexed keywords

ARTERY PUNCTURE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CLINICAL EDUCATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL VEIN; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTUBATION; LABORATORY; LUNG VENTILATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIAL ARTERY; RESUSCITATION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SURGICAL TRAINING; SUTURING METHOD; SWINE; THORACOCENTESIS; TRACHEOTOMY; TUBE; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; WOUND CLOSURE;

ANIMALS; CADAVER; CLINICAL CLERKSHIP; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SWINE;

EID: 77955440268     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.07.039     Document Type: Article

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