BACKGROUND: Technical performance has traditionally been assessed subjectively within
the operating theater, with few successful attempts at objective analysis. The Imperial …

Background: Recent attempts to gain a more objective measure of surgical technical skill
include the use of structured checklists and motion analysis of surgeons’ hand movements. We …

Background. Recent attention has been directed at developing quantitative assessments of
surgical skill. This study aims to demonstrate whether objectively measuring differences in …

BACKGROUND: Enterocutaneous fistula associated with type 2 intestinal failure is a challenging
condition that involves a multidisciplinary approach to management. It is suggested that …

The drive to introduce operating robots into theaters is for a number of reasons related to
their intrinsic properties: these include three-dimensional spatial accuracy, reliability, and …

BACKGROUND: Technical skills assessments are being increasingly used in surgical
residency programs, with the objectivity and validity of several techniques well established. …

Background Attempts at assessing surgical proficiency have generally used laboratory simulation
to evaluate skill. The aim of this study was to compare technical ability as measured on …

Algorithms are widely applied to detect hate speech and abusive language in social media.
We investigated whether the human-annotated data used to train these algorithms are …

Technical performance in surgery has come under increased scrutiny in recent years, not
least due to several highly publicized cases where it has been suggested that poor outcomes …

Films featuring psychiatrists, psychiatry and the mentally ill abound, for better or for worse. The
use of cinema in postgradute psychiatry training has been gaining increasing acceptability…