"Blowing up the barriers" in surgical training: Exploring and validating the concept of distributed simulation

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1059-1065

  Kassab, Eva ^a   Tun, Jimmy Kyaw ^a   Arora, Sonal ^a   King, Dominic ^a   Ahmed, Kamran ^b   Miskovic, Danilo ^a   Cope, Alexandra ^a   Vadhwana, Bhamini ^c   Bello, Fernando ^a   Sevdalis, Nick ^a   Kneebone, Roger ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 POINT LIKERT TYPE QUESTIONNAIRE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION; FACE VALIDITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED ASSESSMENT OF TECHNICAL SKILLS; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 81855221987     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318228944a     Document Type: Article

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