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The Knee Arthroscopy Learning Curve: Quantitative Assessment of Surgical Skills

Abstract

PURPOSE: To assess orthopaedic trainees performing diagnostic knee arthroscopies and evaluate procedural competence using a novel statistical method, the Cumulative Summation Test for Learning Curve (LC-CUSUM). METHODS: Twenty orthopaedic trainees in postgraduate year (PGY) 1 through 5 performed diagnostic knee arthroscopy and were evaluated intraoperatively with a validated 10-point knee task-specific checklist (TSCL) and 50-point global …

Authors

Hodgins JL; Veillette C; Biau D; Sonnadara R

Journal

Arthroscopy The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, Vol. 30, No. 5, pp. 613–621

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

May 2014

DOI

10.1016/j.arthro.2014.02.021

ISSN

0749-8063