Background Crowdsourcing involves obtaining ideas, needed services, or content by
soliciting Web-based contributions from a crowd. The 4 types of crowdsourced tasks …

Background Crowdsourcing is used increasingly in health and medical research.
Crowdsourcing is the process of aggregating crowd wisdom to solve a problem. The …

Background Tools for assessment of technical skills are a crucial part of surgical education.
They provide trainees with quantitative feedback highlighting both proficiency and areas for …

Purpose Automatic skill evaluation is of great importance in surgical robotic training.
Extensive research has been done to evaluate surgical skill, and a variety of quantitative …

Abstract Purpose of Review This review aims to summarize innovations in urologic surgical
training in the past 5 years. Recent Findings Many assessment tools have been developed …

Background The application of crowdsourcing to surgical education is a recent phenomenon
and adds to increasing demands on surgical residency training. The efficacy, range, and …

Interest is growing within the urological surgery community for objective assessments of
technical skill. Surgical video review relies on the use of objective assessment tools to …

Objective: To define criteria for robotic credentialing using expert consensus. Background: A
recent review of institutional robotic credentialing policies identified significant variability and …

Background: We hypothesized that surgical skills assessment could aid in the selection
process of medical student applicants to a surgical program. Recently, crowdsourcing has …

Introduction Crowdsourced assessment utilizes a large group of untrained individuals from
the general population to solve tasks in the medical field. The aim was to examine the …