Mentorship programmes for laparoscopic and robotic urology

BJU International

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1869-1871

  Abboudi, May ^a,b   Ahmed, Kamran ^a,b   Kirby, Roger ^c   Khan, Mohammed Shamim ^a,b   Dasgupta, Prokar ^a,b   Challacombe, Ben ^a,b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c Prostate Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; KNOWLEDGE; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NOTE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SIMULATION; SKILL RETENTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEACHER; UROLOGY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MENTORS; ROBOTICS; UROLOGY;

EID: 79957850685     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2011.10244.x     Document Type: Note

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