BACKGROUND: Previous studies have explored the effect of fatigue on general
psychomotor proficiency. However, studies specifically addressing the effect of fatigue on …

BACKGROUND: Surgery is a skill-driven discipline. While other high-stake professions with
comparable cognitive and psychomotor skill requirements often use warm-up exercises for …

Context-aware segmentation of laparoscopic and robot assisted surgical video has been
shown to improve performance and perioperative workflow efficiency, and can be used for …

BACKGROUND: While initial results suggest that simulation does promote learning, there is
a dearth of studies that define the extent to which skills learned through simulation are …

BACKGROUND: Fatigue and sleep deprivation and their effects on surgical proficiency have
been actively researched areas. Past studies that have focused solely on residents have …

Simulators for honing procedural skills (such as surgical skills and central venous catheter
placement) have proven to be valuable tools for medical educators and students. While such …

Assuring quality surgical trainees within the confines of reduced work hours mandates
reassessment of educational paradigms. Surgical simulators have been shown to be …

Manual dexterity is one of the most important surgical skills, and yet there are limited
instruments to evaluate this ability objectively. In this paper, we propose a system designed …

A proper temporal model is essential to analysis tasks involving sequential data. In computer-
assisted surgical training, which is the focus of this study, obtaining accurate temporal …

BACKGROUND: Night floats have evolved in the era of limited resident work hours. This
study was designed to define the effect of restricted nighttime duty hours on the psychomotor …