Cross-platform digital assessment forms for evaluating surgical skills.

ABSTRACT: A variety of structured assessment tools for use in surgical training have been reported, but extant assessment tools often employ paper-based rating forms. Digital assessment forms for evaluating surgical skills could potentially offer advantages over paper-based forms, especially in complex assessment situations. In this paper, we report on the development of cross-platform digital assessment forms for use with multiple raters in order to facilitate the automatic processing of surgical skills assessments that include structured ratings. The FileMaker 13 platform was used to create a database containing the digital assessment forms, because this software has cross-platform functionality on both desktop computers and handheld devices. The database is hosted online, and the rating forms can

SUBMITTER: Andersen SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4427855 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature