Colonoscopy performance correlates with scores on the FES™ manual skills test

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 3081-3085

  Mueller, C L ^a,b,c   Kaneva, P ^a,b   Fried, G M ^a,b   Feldman, L S ^a,b   Vassiliou, M C ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Education; Endoscopy; Fundamentals of endoscopic surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; FUNDAMENTALS OF ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GENERAL SURGERY; GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPIC SKILLS; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RESIDENT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDY SKILLS; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORK EXPERIENCE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84919346028     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-014-3583-x     Document Type: Article

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