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Abstract

Assessment of residency training at all levels is a tough and scrupulous component of the residency programme. An important part that has usually been inadequately evaluated and reported on is a resident’s surgical abilities or technical skills. Faculty evaluation of the residents technical skills is generally provided at the end of rotation1 in the form of a written assessment and is likely to be subjective with unknown validity and poor reliability and provide very little if any objective measure for assessment and most importantly do not provide any detailed feedback or comments for improvement.