Comparison of resident self-assessments with trained faculty and standardized patient assessments of clinical and technical skills in a structured educational module
Luke P. Brewster, Donald A. Risucci, Raymond J. Joehl, Fred N. Littooy, Barbara K. Temeck, Patrice Gabler Blair, Ajit K. Sachdeva
pages 1-4
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The use of a cognitive task analysis–based multimedia program to teach surgical decision making in flexor tendon repair
Kali R. Luker, Maura E. Sullivan, Sarah E. Peyre, Randy Sherman, Tiffany Grunwald
pages 11-15
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Assessing the teaching of procedural skills: can cognitive task analysis add to our traditional teaching methods?
Maura E. Sullivan, Adrian Ortega, Nir Wasserberg, Howard Kaufman, Julie Nyquist, Richard Clark
pages 20-23
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Enlarged parathyroid glands discovered in normocalcemic patients during thyroid surgery
Bassam Abboud, Ghassan Sleilaty, Carla Braidy, Claude Ghorra, Gerard Abadjian, Cyril Tohme, Roger Noun, Riad Sarkis
pages 30-33
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Early versus delayed laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials, 15 August 2007
Tamim Siddiqui, Alisdair MacDonald, Peter S. Chong, John T. Jenkins
pages 40-47
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The effectiveness of extended lymph node dissection for gastric cancer performed in Costa Rica under the supervision of a Japanese surgeon: a comparison with surgical results in Japan
Tsuyoshi Sasagawa, Horacio Solano, Walter Vega, Fernando Mena
pages 53-60
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Extra-anatomic revascularization and aortic exclusion for mycotic aneurysms of the infrarenal aorta and iliac arteries in an Asian population
Colin Y.L. Woon, Mathew G. Sebastian, Kiang-Hiong Tay, Seck-Guan Tan
pages 66-72
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Trauma patients: you can get them in, but you can’t get them out
David J. Ciesla, Jack A. Sava, Susan O. Kennedy, Karen Levinson, Marion H. Jordan
pages 78-83
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Does delaying repair of an asymptomatic hernia have a penalty?, 19 November 2007
Jon S. Thompson, James O. Gibbs, Domenic J. Reda, Martin McCarthy, Yongliang Wei, Anita Giobbie-Hurder, Robert J. Fitzgibbons
pages 89-93
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Microporous polysaccharide hemospheres for management of laparoscopic trocar injury to the spleen, 19 November 2007
Mitchell R. Humphreys, Erik P. Castle, Paul E. Andrews, Matthew T. Gettman, Mark H. Ereth
pages 99-103
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Obstructing phytobezoar arising from proximal jejunal diverticulum
Erik Lough, Bryan Richmond, Damian Maxwell, John David Hayes
pages 106-107
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Safe and quick distal pancreatectomy using a staggered six-row stapler, 19 November 2007
Takeyuki Misawa, Hiroaki Shiba, Teruyuki Usuba, Takuya Nojiri, Tadashi Uwagawa, Yuichi Ishida, Yuji Ishii, Katsuhiko Yanaga
pages 115-118
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Two-channel gastric pacing with a novel implantable gastric pacemaker accelerates glucagon-induced delayed gastric emptying in dogs
Junying Xu, Robert A. Ross, Richard W. McCallum, Jiande D.Z. Chen
pages 122-129
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Mitchell C. Posner
page 134
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The impact of prophylactic antibiotics on postoperative infection complication in elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a prospective randomized study
Janahan Sarveswaran, Dermot Burke, Chris Pring
page 135
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Training of general surgical residents: what model is appropriate?, 09 July 2007
Hilary West
pages 136-138
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Erratum: Enhancing skin wound healing by direct delivery of intracellular adenosine triphosphate
page 139
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