AIMC Topic: General Surgery

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The model for Fundamentals of Endovascular Surgery (FEVS) successfully defines the competent endovascular surgeon.

Journal of vascular surgery
OBJECTIVE: Fundamental skills testing is now required for certification in general surgery. No model for assessing fundamental endovascular skills exists. Our objective was to develop a model that tests the fundamental endovascular skills and differe...

A review of training research and virtual reality simulators for the da Vinci surgical system.

Teaching and learning in medicine
UNLABELLED: PHENOMENON: Virtual reality simulators are the subject of several recent studies of skills training for robot-assisted surgery. Yet no consensus exists regarding what a core skill set comprises or how to measure skill performance. Definin...