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The Formula for a Successful Laparoscopic Skills Curriculum—Invited Critique
Gary Dunnington, MD
Arch Surg. 2009;144(1):82.
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Stefanidis and Heniford have provided a wonderful formula for educational leaders to design a comprehensive skills laboratory curriculum that is fully integrated into the residency training program. They emphasize the importance of trainee motivation and mandatory attendance, available resources and personnel, faculty commitment and participation, appropriate performance metrics, well-designed instruction with a cognitive component, and practice that is deliberate, distributed, and variable.
Trainee and faculty commitment are perhaps the most important ingredients to ensure that this formula transitions skills laboratory training into a routine part of the educational culture. There is little chance of this cultural change without support from departmental leadership and broad faculty participation, and an academic incentive program can further encourage and reward faculty participation in this teaching activity. The American College of Surgeons/Association of Program Directors in Surgery curriculum provides a Guidebook for Program Directors with excellent materials for faculty development in motor . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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