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Minimally Invasive Surgery
Volume 2012, Article ID 379625, 4 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/379625
Research Article

Objective Assessment of the Core Laparoscopic Skills Course

Sami Mansour, Nizar Din, Kumaran Ratnasingham, Shashidhar Irukulla, George Vasilikostas, Marcus Reddy, and Andrew Wan

Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Department, St. George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, London SW17 0QT, UK

Received 19 January 2012; Accepted 20 February 2012

Academic Editor: Peng Hui Wang

Copyright © 2012 Sami Mansour et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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