title: Construction and validation of a surgical skills assessment tool for general surgery residency program.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To develop and validate an instrument for measuring the acquisition of technical skills in conducting operations of increasing difficulty for use in General Surgery Residency (GSR) programs.
  
  
  METHODS
  we built a surgical skills assessment tool containing 11 operations in increasing levels of difficulty. For instrument validation we used the face validity method. Through an electronic survey tool (Survey MonKey®) we sent a questionnaire to Full and Emeritus members of the Brazilian College of Surgeons--CBC--all bearers of the CBC Specialist Title.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 307 questionnaires sent we received 100 responses. For the analysis of the data collected we used the Cronbach's alpha test. We observed that, in general, the overall alpha presented with values near or greater than 0.70, meaning good consistency to assess their points of interest.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The evaluation instrument built was validated and can be used as a method of assessment of technical skill acquisition in the General Surgery Residency programs in Brazil.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Elizabeth Gomes dos
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
authors.forename: Gil Fernando da Costa Mendes de
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Salles
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004521:Educational Measurement; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D015203:Reproducibility of Results