Open AccessDo Resident Surgical Volumes and Level of Training Correlate with Improved Performance on Psychomotor Skills Tasks: Construct Validity Testing of an ASSH Training Platform (STEP)?
Author(s) -
Jeffrey J. Olson,
Bo Zhang,
Diana Zhu,
Evan T. Zheng,
George S.M. Dyer,
Tamara D. Rozental,
Dawn M. LaPorte
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jb and js open access
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.786
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 2472-7245
DOI - 10.2106/jbjs.oa.20.00123
Subject(s) - medicine , psychomotor learning , physical therapy , confidence interval , numerical digit , construct validity , surgery , physical medicine and rehabilitation , orthodontics , mathematics , patient satisfaction , cognition , arithmetic , psychiatry
The Surgical Training and Educational Platform (STEP) was developed by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) as a cost-effective set of surgical simulation modules designed to assess critical skills in hand surgery. Previous study demonstrated that STEP can differentiate between novice trainees and board-certified, certificate of added qualification hand surgeons. The purpose of this study was to assess construct validity of STEP by testing its ability to differentiate psychomotor skill level among intermediate trainees.