Surgical skills assessment of applicants to general surgery residency

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 189-194

  Panait, Lucian ^a   Larios, Jose M ^a   Brenes, Robert A ^a   Fancher, Tiffany T ^a   Ajemian, Michael S ^a   Dudrick, Stanley J ^a   Sanchez, Juan A ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

general surgery residency applicants; surgical skill testing; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SKILL; SURGICAL SKILL; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

APTITUDE; APTITUDE TESTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LAPAROSCOPY; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; QUESTIONNAIRES; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80052816689     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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