Background The goal of this article is to conduct an assessment of the peer-reviewed
primary literature with study objectives to analyze Amazon. com's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) …

Background Crowdsourcing involves obtaining ideas, needed services, or content by
soliciting Web-based contributions from a crowd. The 4 types of crowdsourced tasks …

Purpose: Robotic surgeries, especially in urology, have grown exponentially during the last
decade. Various skills assessment tools have been developed. We reviewed the current …

Introduction This study reviews the current state of robotic surgery training for surgeons,
including the various curricula, training methods, and tools available, as well as the …

What Is the Innovation? Surgical skills impact patient outcomes. 1 Our profession needs
methods that accurately and objectively evaluate surgical skills. 2 These methods must …

Purpose Automatic skill evaluation is of great importance in surgical robotic training.
Extensive research has been done to evaluate surgical skill, and a variety of quantitative …

Background Evaluation of robotic surgical skill has become increasingly important as robotic
approaches to common surgeries become more widely utilized. However, evaluation of …

Purpose The BLUS (Basic Laparoscopic Urologic Skills) consortium sought to address the
construct validity of BLUS tasks and the wider problem of accurate, scalable and affordable …

The use of simulation as an assessment tool is much more controversial than is its utility as
an educational tool. However, without valid simulation-based assessment tools, the ability to …

Background The application of crowdsourcing to surgical education is a recent phenomenon
and adds to increasing demands on surgical residency training. The efficacy, range, and …