TY  - JOUR
T1  - Proficiency, competency, and mastery: Comment on “technical proficiency in hand-assisted laparoscopic colon and rectal surgery”
AU  - Oleynikov D
Y1  - 2012/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.2011.1342
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 322
EP  - 323
VL  - 147
IS  - 4
N2  - 
This article1 and many others suggest that the number of cases needed to achieve mastery in HALS is 105.2- 4 These studies face a number of limitations in their approach including different demographics of the study population, the age of the operating surgeon as well as his or her surgical experience, and the varying difficulty of the operations themselves.5- 6

SN  - 0004-0010
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2011.1342
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2011.1342
ER  -