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Review Article| Volume 54, P205-214, September 2020

Video Assessment of Surgeons and Surgery

      Video-based assessment provides a platform for objective, independent, and blinded assessment of surgical skills, therefore overcoming inherent limitations of assessments through direct observation.

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