Researchers suggest that, although implementation of an evaluation process of medical residents’ surgical skills is difficult, any available resources should be directed toward such an evaluation ...

Surgical training involves the acquisition of both technical and nontechnical skills. During a surgical residency, technical skills improve with practice, and surgical judgment deepens as a result of ...

UAB’s General Surgery Residency Program recognizes that incoming resident classes enter into residency training with limited clinical and procedural experience. Despite having fewer opportunities for ...

A surgical skills laboratory and corresponding dissection curricula were established in the Department of Neurosurgery at the Cleveland Clinic in the 2011-2012 academic year. The authors describe how ...

To examine the basic surgical training received by Senior House Officers (SHOs) in ophthalmology and the influence on training of sociodemographic and organisational factors. There are significant ...

In recent years, simulation has come to the foreground as a method of teaching technical skills to surgical trainees. Rapid changes in health care systems underlie the shift to simulation-based ...