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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-12-26
pubmed:abstractText
Recent interest in the assessment of manual dexterity of surgical residency applicants prompted an investigation of psychomotor skills in surgeons and physicians. The Purdue Pegboard and Minnesota Manual Dexterity tests were given to 57 subjects. Analysis of the data revealed no significant difference in dexterity between medical and surgical residents, suggesting that medical students do not select specialty training programs because of the presence or absence of manual skills. The data also revealed that surgical staffmen performed substantially worse than those in the other groups on some of the tests, possibly because of an older average age. The authors conclude from their data that manual dexterity tests should not be used in assessing candidates for surgical residency training positions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0008-428X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
467-70
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Objective comparison of manual dexterity in physicians and surgeons.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ont.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article