Objective To investigate the teaching of cognitive skills within a technical skills course, we
carried out a blinded, randomized prospective study. Methods Twenty-one junior residents …

Background There is a need for new approaches to surgical training in order to cope with
the increasing time pressures, ethical constraints, and legal limitations being placed on …

BACKGROUND: The development of efficient training methods in surgery is increasingly
important. The effectiveness of training trainers is unclear. This study was designed to …

Objective To define cognitive apprenticeship and describe how it can be applied to
orthopedic education. Design Traditional apprenticeships have been used through history …

BACKGROUND: Teaching practical skills is a core component of undergraduate and
postgraduate surgical education. It is crucial to optimize our current learning and teaching …

Background: Rapid improvements in computer technology allow us to consider the use of
computer-assisted learning (CAL) for teaching technical skills in surgical training. The …

BACKGROUND: The teaching of surgical skills is based mostly on the traditional “see one,
do one, teach one” resident-to-resident method. Surgical skills laboratories provide a new …

Background: Analyses of adverse events in surgery reveal that underlying causes are often
behavioural, such as communication failures, rather than technical. Non-technical (ie …

Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine whether individualized coaching
improved surgical technical skill in the operating room to a higher degree than current …

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a cognitive training method on the performance of
simulated laparoscopic cholecystectomy in laparoscopic training courses. Summary …