Background: Developing technical skill is essential to surgical training, but using the
operating room for basic skill acquisition may be inefficient and expensive, especially for …

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to develop a performance-based laparoscopic
suturing curriculum using simulators and to test the effectiveness (transferability) of the …

Background: An anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear is a common knee injury, particularly
among young and active individuals. Little is known, however, about the societal impacts of …

One of the benefits of Digital PCR (dPCR) is the potential for unparalleled precision enabling
smaller fold change measurements. An example of an assessment that could benefit from …

The emerging technique of microfluidic digital PCR (dPCR) offers a unique approach to real-time
quantitative PCR for measuring nucleic acids that may be particularly suited for low-…

Currently, no optimal curriculum exists for the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS)
manual skills training program. The objective was to create a proficiency-based training …

Acuity scores, such as APACHE, SAPS, MPM, and SOFA, are widely used to account for
population differences in studies aiming to compare how medications, care guidelines, surgery, …

Training on a video trainer or computer-based minimally invasive surgery trainer leads to
improved benchtop laparoscopic skill. Recently, improved operative performance from practice …

Surgical education has dramatically changed in response to numerous constraints placed on
residency programs, but a substantial gap in uniform practices exist, especially in the area …

Solutions of the Lewis acid B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 in 1,4-dioxane are found to effectively catalyze the
hydrogenation of a variety of ketones and aldehydes. These reactions, the first to allow …