https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/ 2026-04-05T20:12:38+00:00 https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/ https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2020-03-24T02:34:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=assessment&rev=1585017260&do=diff Assessment Source: Assessing Learners. Valerie Wass & Julian Archer. in Medical Education: Theory and Practice. A Fundamental Truth “Assessment drives learning”, BUT “Examinations drive learning too narrowly towards the licensing test. Training towards minimum competency can conflict with the overriding commitment to education and lifelong learning. text/html 2020-03-24T02:34:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=cognitive_load&rev=1585017260&do=diff Cognitive Load intrinsic, germane, extraneous text/html 2020-04-16T07:38:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=educational_needs_in_hand_surgery&rev=1587022699&do=diff Educational Needs in Hand Surgery Sears2014 text/html 2020-03-24T02:34:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=expertise&rev=1585017260&do=diff see expertise text/html 2020-03-24T02:34:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=glossary&rev=1585017260&do=diff Definitions Automaticity: Expertise in task without attention Surgical Competency (after szasz2015): " Although poorly defined, technical competence is often used as a synonym for technical skill. One useful explanation comes from Mohr et al,124 who described technical competence as the skill to safely and successfully perform the required steps of a particular procedure, text/html 2020-03-24T02:34:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=learning_and_skilled_performance&rev=1585017260&do=diff Learning and Skilled Performance 2018-03-14 Definition (Walker) “Adult human performance involves the utilization of existing hierarchies of habit” Phases of Skill Learning * Bryan and Harter 1889 -- telegraphic skill * Hierarchy of habits (y) text/html 2020-07-31T07:08:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=microsurgery_assessment&rev=1596179322&do=diff moved to microsurgery_assessment text/html 2020-03-24T02:34:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=national_health_insurance&rev=1585017260&do=diff Fuchs states that National Health Insurance is the result of political rather than economic decision making. He cites the example of Bismarck in Germany and the UK's NHS as two examples of this. In his view, the opponents of NHI in the US are are stronger than those who support it. This includes parties who have vested interests (e.g. hospitals, physicians etc..), but also many general public who feel the government should stay out of their people's affairs. text/html 2020-11-27T08:09:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=retention_and_decay&rev=1606464580&do=diff Surgical Decay and Retention mitchell2011: Evaluation of distributed practice schedules on retention of a newly acquired surgical skill: A randomized trial text/html 2021-06-06T09:59:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=sidebar&rev=1622973543&do=diff Topics * Hand Surgery * Medicine * Surgical Education * Anatomy * Medical Statistics Microsurgery * Introduction * Microscopes * Microsurgery Models * Microsurgery Programmes * Supermicrosurgery * Simulation * Glossary Books * Books and other reading Biomechanics * Introduction to Biomechanics Personal * Miscellaneous * Python * Emacs About text/html 2021-09-10T13:35:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=start&rev=1631280944&do=diff Start Page Introduction This is my personal wiki. I use it to keep and organize notes related to hand surgery, surgical education, microsurgery training, and some personal notes. In 2019, I decided to register the alfchong.com domain name. With that in hand, I signed up for some shared hosting, which is relatively cheap and much easier to set up nowadays. I have been away from this hosting and running website business for a good 10+ years. text/html 2021-11-02T01:26:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=success&rev=1635816388&do=diff Success in Medicine Source: Ch 18. Katherine Woolf, Chris McManus: Predicting and guiding career success in medicine. (Read: 2017-10-24, 2019-04-10) What is success? ‘Each of them - as is often the way with men who have selected careers of different kinds - though in discussion he would even justify the other's career, in his heart despised it.’ Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina 1877) text/html 2021-06-12T08:35:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=surgical_education&rev=1623486954&do=diff Surgical Education I am interested in the teaching and learning of surgery, particular the technical skills in the OR. Using microvascular anastomosis as a model of a complex surgical task, I am interested to understand how simulation, particularly low-fidelity simulation models can be used to acquire the necessary skills for surgery. text/html 2020-03-24T02:34:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.handsurgskills.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=uksams&rev=1585017260&do=diff SAMs 3 month programme Source: Masud2017 * didactic teaching * chicken femoral artery - SAMS scoring * 60 points Structured programme * 12 weeks * weekly progress * 4 step progress: needle dexterity, economy of movement, operative flow, operative judgement