Assessing the teaching of procedural skills: can cognitive task analysis add to our traditional teaching methods?
The American Journal of SurgeryPublished 13 December 2007
Maura E. Sullivan, Adrián E. Ortega, Nir Wasserberg, Howard S. Kaufman, Julie G. Nyquist, Richard E. Clark
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A cognitive task analysis (CTA) was used to identify relevant steps and decision points that were omitted during traditional teaching by all 3 experts of a colonoscopy.
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By using CTA, we were able to identify relevant steps and decision points that were omitted during traditional teaching by all 3 experts.
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