A novel multimodal platform for assessing surgical technical skills

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 32-36

  Sonnadara, Ranil ^a,d   Rittenhouse, Neil ^a,b   Khan, Ajmal ^a,b   Mihailidis, Alex ^b,c   Drozdzal, Gregory ^a   Safir, Oleg ^a,d   Leung, Shuk On ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Motion tracking; Technical skills assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SURGICAL PERFORMANCE; TECHNOLOGY; VALIDITY; VIDEORECORDING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; OPTICAL DEVICES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 83555164821     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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