Open AccessTeaching Surgical Skills: What Kind of Practice Makes Perfect?
Author(s) -
CarolAnne Moulton,
Adam Dubrowski,
Helen MacRae,
Brent Graham,
Ethan Grober,
Richard Reznick
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/01.sla.0000234808.85789.6a
Subject(s) - checklist , medicine , curriculum , test (biology) , dreyfus model of skill acquisition , medical education , test score , standardized test , psychology , mathematics education , cognitive psychology , paleontology , pedagogy , economics , biology , economic growth
Surgical skills laboratories have become an important venue for early skill acquisition. The principles that govern training in this novel educational environment remain largely unknown; the commonest method of training, especially for continuing medical education (CME), is a single multihour event. This study addresses the impact of an alternative method, where learning is distributed over a number of training sessions. The acquisition and transfer of a new skill to a life-like model is assessed.