Deconstructing laparoscopic competence in a virtual reality simulation environment

Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 750-760

  Loukas, Constantinos ^a   Nikiteas, Nikolaos ^a   Kanakis, Meletios ^a   Georgiou, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOWEL SUTURING; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; PARAMETER; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; SKILL; SURGEON; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SUTURING METHOD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; TEACHING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79957777967     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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