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University Of Texas Southwestern One-Of-A-Kind Video-Laparoscopic Lab May Change The Way Surgery Is Taught

...ion, the remainder are not. During the pre-test, a stopwatch times them on five skill drills, includingdropping a bean in a dish and moving a small wood block by hooking a metalloop on top of the block. For two weeks after that, the practicing groupspends 30 minutes daily, five days a week, on the trainer. In ...

Most patients take less than two minutes to tell their story

...r doctors were instructed to time them on a hidden stopwatch and not to interrupt until the patient said "What do you think, doctor?" The average spontaneous talking time was 92 seconds and 78% of patients had finished within two minutes. Sex and social status did not influence the results, but older patient...

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