title: Assessing the skills of surgical residents using simulation.
abstract: Much is still to be learned about the assessment of simulation-based surgical skills training. However, assessing surgery skills through simulation is a new horizon in medical education. Providing a safe environment for surgical residents to assess their performance rigorously without placing patients in jeopardy is valuable. Using simulators (both warm and cold) as a means to assess trainees has been established. However, also problems concerning the validity and reliability of such simulation-based assessment tools exist, particularly in surgery, that may need to be investigated even more to decide whether to use them as a tool for assessing the performance of surgical residents.
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Unit, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK. mcxmt2@nottingham.ac.uk
authors.forename: Mohsen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tavakol
authors.forename: Mohammad Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mohagheghi
authors.forename: Reg
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dennick
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods*; D004521:Educational Measurement; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods; D017145:Models, Educational; D016544:Patient Simulation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000193:education*; D014584:User-Computer Interface