Mental practice enhances surgical technical skills: A randomized controlled study

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 265-270

  Arora, Sonal ^a   Aggarwal, Rajesh ^a   Sirimanna, Pramudith ^a   Moran, Aidan ^b   Grantcharov, Teodor ^c   Kneebone, Roger ^a   Sevdalis, Nick ^a   Darzi, Ara ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL PRACTICE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RATING SCALE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING; MENTAL PROCESSES; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79251489468     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318207a789     Document Type: Article

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