Background Surgeons are increasingly being scrutinized for their performance and there is
growing interest in objective assessment of technical skills. The purpose of this study was to …

Surgical training is changing: one hundred years of tradition is being challenged by legal
and ethical concerns for patient safety, work hours restrictions, the cost of operating room …

Objective: To assess the McGill Inanimate System for Training and Evaluation of
Laparoscopic Skills (MISTELS) physical laparoscopic simulator for construct and predictive …

IN THE LATE 1990S THE Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgery
(SAGES) formed a committee (Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery or FLS) and charged …

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to develop a performance-based
laparoscopic suturing curriculum using simulators and to test the effectiveness …

Purpose: Complex skills, such as ureteroscopy and stone extraction, are increasingly taught
to novice urology trainees using bench models in surgical skills laboratories. We determined …

Introduction: We compared the impact of two-dimensional (2D) versus three-dimensional
(3D) visualization on both objective and subjective measures of laparoscopic performance …

Abstract Background The McGill Inanimate System for Training and Evaluation of
Laparoscopic Skills (MISTELS) is a series of five tasks with an objective scoring system. The …

Background Simulation tools offer the opportunity for the acquisition of surgical skill in the
preclinical setting. Potential educational, safety, cost, and outcome benefits have brought …

T he anatomy of a surgeon is complex. A skilled surgical practitioner requires a depth of
cognitive knowledge, an appropriate surgical judgment, and an ability to act quickly but …