Objective Assessment of Surgical Skills in a 2-Day Visceral Anastomosis Techniques Course hold in the Annual Congress of the German Surgical Society (DGCH)

Einleitung: Many residency training programs in the USA are incorporating simulation skills Laboratories (SSL) into their curricula after being established by the American college of surgery (ACS) in 2006. One of the well-known SSL is hold yearly since 2005 in DGCH. it is subdivided into different courses over 4 days with different modules in station-settings and includes among others conventional visceral anastomosis techniques. The Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skill (OSATS) developed in Canada and currently used widely by residency programs in north America to evaluate the efficacy of technical…