Assessment of microsurgery competency-where are we now?

Microsurgery

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 406-415

  Ramachandran, Savitha ^a   Ghanem, Ali M ^b   Myers, Simon R ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; GLOBAL RATING SCALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; RATING SCALE; SIMULATION; SKILL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; SUTURING METHOD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VASCULAR PATENCY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CHECKLIST; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MICROSURGERY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; ONTARIO; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84880132111     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.22111     Document Type: Article

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