Bringing the skills laboratory home: An affordable webcam-based personal trainer for developing laparoscopic skills

Journal of Surgical Education

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 105-109

  Kobayashi, Sow Alfred ^a   Jamshidi, Ramin ^a,b   O'Sullivan, Patricia ^a   Palmer, Barnard ^a   Hirose, Shinjiro ^a   Stewart, Lygia ^a   Kim, Edward Hyung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMERA; DEVICE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SKILL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNET; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LABORATORIES; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 79951867583     PISSN: 19317204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2010.09.014     Document Type: Article

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