Successful implementation of the american college of surgeons/association of program directors in surgery surgical skills curriculum via a 4-week consecutive simulation rotation

Simulation in Healthcare

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 147-154

  Mittal, Mayank Kumar ^a   Dumon, Kristoffel R ^a   Edelson, Paula Kaitlyn ^a   Acero, Natalia Martinez ^a   Hashimoto, Daniel ^a   Danzer, Enrico ^a   Selvan, Ben ^a   Resnick, Andrew S ^a   Morris, Jon B ^a   Williams, Noel N ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ACS APDS skills curriculum; Competency; Proficiency based training; Simulation; Skills laboratories; Surgical education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TEACHING; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LEARNING; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; TEACHING; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862226253     PISSN: 15592332     EISSN: 1559713X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SIH.0b013e31824120c6     Document Type: Article

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