GOALS-incisional hernia: A valid assessment of simulated laparoscopic incisional hernia repair

Surgical Innovation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-54

  Vaillancourt, Marilou ^a   Ghaderi, Iman ^a   Kaneva, Pepa ^a   Vassiliou, Melina ^a   Kolozsvari, Nicoleta ^a   George, Ivan ^b   Sutton, F Erica ^b   Seagull, F Jacob ^b   Park, Adrian E ^b   Fried, Gerald M ^a   Feldman, Liane S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; education; hernia; incisional; simulation; surgery; ventral

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; FEMALE; GLOBAL OPERATIVE ASSESSMENT OF LAPAROSCOPIC SKILLS; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LAPAROSCOPIC INCISIONAL HERNIA REPAIR; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SELF EVALUATION; SIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; FEMALE; HERNIA, VENTRAL; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79952968931     PISSN: 15533506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1553350610389826     Document Type: Article

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