Does operative experience during residency correlate with reported competency of recent general surgery graduates?

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 4 SUPPL. 2, 2012, Pages

  Safavi, Arash ^a   Lai, Sarah ^b   Butterworth, Sonia ^a   Hameed, Morad ^a   Schiller, Dan ^b   Skarsgard, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICS; TIME; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; RESEARCH REPORT; SELF-ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84865252928     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cjs.020811     Document Type: Article

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