Development of a five-day basic microsurgery simulation training course: A cost analysis

Archives of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 213-217

  Singh, Masha ^a   Ziolkowski, Natalia ^b   Ramachandran, Savitha ^c   Myers, Simon R ^a   Ghanem, Ali Mahmoud ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c KK WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cost and cost analysis; Education; Microsurgery

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MICROSURGERY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; SILASTIC TUBE; SIMULATION; TRAINING;

EID: 84901305654     PISSN: 22346163     EISSN: 22346171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5999/aps.2014.41.3.213     Document Type: Article

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