title: Development of an affordable system for personalized video-documented surgical skill analysis for surgical residency training.
abstract: Surgical competency requires the development of decision-making and technical skills. Despite lectures, literature, and written and oral examinations, both skill sets are difficult to systematically teach and analyze. With the advent of head-mounted video cameras, we seek to incorporate a surgical video database into our surgical training curriculum. We hope to not only change the way and rate at which surgical trainees develop their surgical skills but to also introduce a novel tool for surgical skill assessment.
authors.affiliation: From the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA.
authors.forename: Aaron J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Berger
authors.forename: Richard S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Gaster
authors.forename: Gordon K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004867:Equipment Design; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000193:education*; D014741:Video Recording / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*