Visuospatial ability factors and performance variables in laparoscopic simulator training

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 632-638

  Luursema, Jan Maarten ^a   Verwey, Willem B ^b   Burie, Remke ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Simulator training; Visuospatial ability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865353278     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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