Development and validation of a comprehensive program of education and assessment of the basic fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery

Autor: Jeffrey H Peters, Gerald M Fried, Lee L Swanstrom, Nathaniel J Soper, Lelan F Sillin, Bruce Schirmer, Kaaren Hoffman, null the SAGES FLS Committee
Rok vydání: 2004
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Zdroj: Surgery. 135:21-27
ISSN: 0039-6060
Popis: IN THE LATE 1990S THE Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgery (SAGES) formed a committee (Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery or FLS) and charged it to develop educational materials covering the basic fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery. Four major principles guided the committee’s developmental process. First, comprehensive coverage of the domain of basic laparoscopy was seen as involving two components: one cognitive (declarative knowledge); and the other psychomotor (procedural skill). Second, the focus of the program was to be on the educational material considered unique to laparoscopy and not on material normally encountered during open surgical training. Third, in accordance with the idea of basic fundamentals, any content specific to a particular anatomic location or to a specific laparoscopic procedure was to be avoided. And fourth, the program was to contain mechanisms for assessment as well as for didactic instruction. The overall goal of the FLS program was to ‘‘teach a standard set of cognitive and psychomotor skills to practitioners of laparoscopic surgery’’ in the belief that knowledge and application of these fundamentals would help ‘‘ensure a minimal standard of care for all patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery.’’ The didactic learning modules are
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