Objective The purpose of this study was to identify, synthesize, and discuss objective
behavioral or physiological metrics of surgeons' nontechnical skills (NTS) in the literature …

Health care remains an exceedingly complex, high-risk industry with the potential for errors
resulting in patient injury or mortality. Many health care systems have progressed toward …

Background Web-based continuing professional development (CPD) is a convenient and
low-cost way for physicians to update their knowledge. However, little is known about the …

Background: Cadaveric simulation training may be part of the solution to reduced quantity
and quality of operative surgical training in the modern climate. Cadaveric simulation allows …

Modern surgical education is focused on making use of the available technologies in order
to train and assess surgical skill acquisition. Innovative technologies for the automatic …

Background Current team assessment instruments in healthcare tend to involve rater-based
evaluations that are susceptible to well-known biases. Recent advances in technology …

The field of surgery has become quite a common interest among medical students, with an
increasing number of aspirants each year. Surgery, of any kind, is a really challenging field …

Regardless of their ultimate career intention, all doctors will face patients with urological
conditions on wards, in the emergency department, and in primary care. At least 5–10% of …

Methods One hundred one medical doctors were included in this prospective, mixed-
method, simulation-based study. Participants were randomized to train individually or in …

Aim Non‐technical skills are component features of human factors whose defects can lead
to surgical errors and adverse events. Circulating nurses need to deploy non‐technical skills …