Journal article
Systematic instruction of arthroscopic knot tying with the ArK Trainer: an objective evaluation tool
Abstract
PURPOSE: A Proficiency Formula was introduced as an objective self-evaluation method for evaluating basic arthroscopic knot tying in a laboratory setting. The correlation between the Proficiency Formula and gold standard pass/fail dichotomy was demonstrated, as well as with other popular evaluation tools--task-specific checklist (TSC) and global rating scale (GRS).
METHOD: A step-by-step video tutorial was used to instruct 35 medical students …
Authors
Wong IH; Denkers MR; Urquhart NA; Farrokhyar F
Journal
Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 912–918
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
3 2015
DOI
10.1007/s00167-013-2567-z
ISSN
0942-2056