Background Rising health and financial costs associated with iatrogenic errors have drawn
increasing attention to the dexterity of surgeons. With the advent of new technologies, such …

BACKGROUND: Technical skills assessments are being increasingly used in surgical
residency programs, with the objectivity and validity of several techniques well established …

Objective: To determine the feasibility, validity, inter-rater, and intertest reliability of 4
previously published video-based rating scales, for technical skills assessment on a …

Objective: To develop guidelines for a faculty training program in nontechnical skill
assessment in surgery. Background: Nontechnical skills in the operating room are critical for …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to create a technical skills assessment toolbox for
35 basic and advanced skills/procedures that comprise the American College of Surgeons …

BACKGROUND: This review examines the surgical and psychological literature on
surgeons' intraoperative non-technical skills. These are the critical cognitive and …

Objective: This single-center study tested the hypothesis that preoperative risk factors and
surgical complexity predict more variation in hospital costs than complications. Background …

The report of the Institute of Medicine,“Too Err Is Human,” 1 has raised awareness of not
only the significant number of medical errors committed, but also the deficiencies in …

Training skillful and competent surgeons is critical to ensure high quality of care and to
minimize disparities in access to effective care. Traditional models to train surgeons are …

Over the last decade or so there has been increasing recognition that adverse events in
health care, and specifically surgery, are more likely to originate from behavioral failures …