Microsurgical skill acquisition in a one-day introductory course with performance evaluation using software-assisted scoring system

摘要

Background: Recent emphasis on microsurgical skill acquisition at an earlier stage of plastic surgery training has seen a shift toward objective competence-based assessment. Yet no objective measures of spacing or alignment exist, with few validated models that assess ability. The authors propose a novel software analysis scoring system to objectively measure spacing, alignment and the overall improvement in a 1-day, introductory course setting.