Background There is wide variation among laparoscopic colon resection techniques,
including the approach for mobilization and the extent of intracorporal vessel ligation, bowel …

Background Considerable resources have been invested in low- and high-fidelity simulators
in surgical training. To our knowledge, no investigation has compared the 2 head to head …

Background Considerable resources have been invested in both low- and high-fidelity
simulators in surgical training. The purpose of this study was to investigate if the Fundamentals of …

Background Laparoscopic surgery entails a unique skill set, but it is unclear whether it requires
a specific assessment form or whether more general assessment tools can be applied. …

Chlamydophila pneumonia (C. pneumonia) infection has been associated with the progression
of atherosclerosis. It remains unclear, however, whether C. pneumoniae in the absence …

… Furthermore, Sarah N. Steigerwald and her colleagues from the University of Manitoba do
not recommend using CAE LapVR systems for training because of their high cost and fewer …

Background: Considerable resources have been invested in low and high fidelity simulators
in surgical training. The purpose of this study was to establish construct and predictive …

Currently, general surgeons provide about 50% of endoscopy services across Canada and
an even greater proportion outside large urban centres. It is essential that endoscopy remain …

… The area is bounded by latitudes 646′N–6356′N and longitudes 217′W–2111′W.
Georeferenced aerial photographs and satellite images were used in the mapping of faults, …

… We use the clusteff Stata command (Lee and Steigerwald 2018) to compute the effective
number of clusters to test the significance of the treatment coefficient. We report the results for …