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 …

Importance Postoperative complications remain common after surgery, but little is known
about the extent of variation in operative technical skill and whether variation is associated …

At a time of significant global unrest and uncertainty surrounding how the delivery of clinical
training will unfold over the coming years, we offer a systematic review, meta-analysis, and …

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

Background Crowdsourcing is used increasingly in health and medical research.
Crowdsourcing is the process of aggregating crowd wisdom to solve a problem. The …

Objective To identify differences and potential deficiencies in urology residency training
programs in the United States as they are perceived by residents/recent graduates and …

Annotation of surgical video is important for establishing ground truth in surgical data
science endeavors that involve computer vision. With the growth of the field over the last …

Simulation-based surgical skills training addresses several concerns associated with the
traditional apprenticeship model, including patient safety, efficient acquisition of complex …

Background Tools for assessment of technical skills are a crucial part of surgical education.
They provide trainees with quantitative feedback highlighting both proficiency and areas for …