Using simulators to assess laparoscopic competence: ready for widespread use?

Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use

1989 • 9,482 citations

Virtual Reality Training Improves Operating Room Performance

2002 • 2,637 citations

Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to Their Development and Use

2015 • 2,500 citations

Objective structured assessment of technical skill (OSATS) for surgical residents

1997 • 2,093 citations

Objective structured assessment of technical skill (OSATS) for surgical residents

1997 • 1,411 citations

Testing technical skill via an innovative “bench station” examination

1997 • 1,042 citations

Simulation Technology for Health Care Professional Skills Training and Assessment

1999 • 893 citations

Laparoscopic training on bench models: better and more cost effective than operating room experience?1

2000 • 721 citations

Comparing the psychometric properties of checklists and global rating scales for assessing performance on an OSCE-format examination

1998 • 708 citations

Development of a Model for Training and Evaluation of Laparoscopic Skills 11This work was supported by an educational grant from United States Surgical Corporation (Auto Suture Canada).

1998 • 653 citations

Assessment of technical skills transfer from the bench training model to the human model

1999 • 540 citations

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14

2005 • 464 citations

Skill Acquisition and Assessment for Laparoscopic Surgery

1997 • 390 citations

THE EFFECT OF BENCH MODEL FIDELITY ON ENDOUROLOGICAL SKILLS: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED STUDY

2002 • 343 citations

The transfer of basic skills learned in a laparoscopic simulator to the operating room

2002 • 321 citations

Science, medicine, and the future: Virtual reality in surgery

2001 • 309 citations

The effect of practice on performance in a laparoscopic simulator

1998 • 297 citations

Computers and Virtual Reality for Surgical Education in the 21st Century

2000 • 284 citations

The relationship between motion analysis and surgical technical assessments

2002 • 276 citations

Comparison of video trainer and virtual reality training systems on acquisition of laparoscopic skills

2001 • 274 citations

Validation of virtual reality to teach and assess psychomotor skills in laparoscopic surgery: results from randomised controlled studies using the MIST VR laparoscopic simulator.

1998 • 268 citations

Skill transfer from virtual reality to a real laparoscopic task

2001 • 254 citations

Objective Evaluation of a Laparoscopic Surgical Skill Program for Residents and Senior Surgeons

1998 • 237 citations

Comparison of laparoscopic performance in vivo with performance measured in a laparoscopic simulator

1999 • 234 citations

Objective Psychomotor Skills Assessment of Experienced, Junior, and Novice Laparoscopists with Virtual Reality

2001 • 229 citations

Teaching the surgical craft: From selection to certification

2002 • 229 citations

Does training in a virtual reality simulator improve surgical performance?

2001 • 205 citations

What do master surgeons think of surgical competence and revalidation?11See Appendix for participating surgeons.

2001 • 181 citations

Motion analysis

1986 • 174 citations

Laparoscopic skills training

2001 • 170 citations

Relationship between objective assessment of technical skills and subjective in-training evaluations in surgical residents

2003 • 158 citations

Skills evaluation in minimally invasive surgery using force/torque signatures

2000 • 156 citations

Learning rate for laparoscopic surgical skills on MIST VR, a virtual reality simulator: quality of human-computer interface.

1999 • 155 citations

Accomplishments and challenges of surgical simulation

2001 • 154 citations

Global rating scales in residency education

1996 • 149 citations

Assessing laparoscopic manipulative skills

2001 • 149 citations

The future of medical education is no longer blood and guts, it is bits and bytes

2000 • 146 citations

Surgical Education and Surgical Simulation

2001 • 146 citations

Virtual reality computer simulation

2001 • 142 citations

An objective scoring system for laparoscopic cholecystectomy

1999 • 139 citations

Evaluation of structured and quantitative training methods for teaching intracorporeal knot tying

2001 • 138 citations

Improving operative performance using a laparoscopic hernia simulator

2001 • 134 citations

Evaluating surgical competency with the American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination, skill testing, and intraoperative assessment

2000 • 132 citations

Assessment of innate ability and skills for endoscopic manipulations by the Advanced Dundee Endoscopic Psychomotor Tester: predictive and concurrent validity

1999 • 132 citations

Motion analysis

2001 • 124 citations

Validity of surgical simulation for the assessment of operative skill

2001 • 119 citations

Surgeon-specific factors in the acquisition of laparoscopic surgical skills

2001 • 119 citations

THE IMPACT OF INTENSE LAPAROSCOPIC SKILLS TRAINING ON THE OPERATIVE PERFORMANCE OF UROLOGY RESIDENTS

2001 • 109 citations

Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2002

2002 • 108 citations

Evaluation of laparoscopic skills: a 2-year follow-up during residency training.

1999 • 105 citations

A simplified simulator for the training and evaluation of laparoscopic skills

2000 • 100 citations

Improving in-training evaluation programs

1998 • 98 citations

A computer-based laparoscopic skills assessment device differentiates experienced from novice laparoscopic surgeons

2001 • 93 citations

A comparison between randomly alternating imaging, normal laparoscopic imaging, and virtual reality training in laparoscopic psychomotor skill acquisition

2000 • 93 citations

Assessing Competency: A Tale of Two Professions

2001 • 87 citations

The role of the Basic Surgical Skills course in the acquisition and retention of laparoscopic skill

2001 • 86 citations

Virtual reality and laparoscopic surgery

1994 • 86 citations

Are Surgery Training Programs Ready for Virtual Reality? A Survey of Program Directors in General Surgery

2001 • 80 citations

The performance of master surgeons on standard aptitude testing

2001 • 65 citations

The college should be instrumental in adapting simulators to education.

2002 • 53 citations

A ten-year analysis of surgical education research

2000 • 47 citations

Can virtual reality be used to measure and train surgical skills?

2002 • 34 citations

Reliability of the Advanced Dundee Endoscopic Psychomotor Tester for Bimanual Tasks

2001 • 29 citations

Skills assessment of surgeons

2002 • 27 citations

The measurement of competence. Current plans and future initiatives of the American Board of Surgery.

2001 • 25 citations

CELTS: a clinically-based Computer Enhanced Laparoscopic Training System.

2003 • 23 citations

The surgical competence conundrum

2002 • 11 citations

Presidential address: Toward physician competency

1999 • 10 citations