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Volume 195, Issue 1 , Pages 20-23 , January 2008

Assessing the teaching of procedural skills: can cognitive task analysis add to our traditional teaching methods?

Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Surgical Education, Washington, DC, April 11–14, 2007

Maura E. Sullivan, Ph.D., M.S.N.
- Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Corresponding author. Tel. +1-323-442-2368; fax: +1-323-442-2051.
Adrian Ortega, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nir Wasserberg, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Howard Kaufman, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Julie Nyquist, Ph.D.
- Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Richard Clark, Ed.D.
- Center for Cognitive Technology, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Received 23 April 2007 ,Revised 10 August 2007

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