Aesthetic surgery journal
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Aesthet Surg J
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Aesthetic surgery journal · Jul 2015
The Development of Assessment Tools for Plastic Surgery Competencies.
Objective tools to assess procedural skills in plastic surgery residency training are currently lacking. There is an increasing need to address this deficit in order to meet today's training standards in North America. ⋯ Using the aforementioned technique, the essential procedural steps for two plastic surgery procedures were determined. Further work is required to develop assessment instruments based on these steps and to gather validity evidence in support of their use in surgical education.