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Table 1 Box-trainer basic skills exercises

From: One or two trainees per workplace in a structured multimodality training curriculum for laparoscopic surgery? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial – DRKS00004675

Nr.

Exercise

1

Moving matches from a box passing them to the other instrument

2

Crossing of 6 rubber bands in a device of 6 screws

3

Cutting out a predefined circle on paper

4

Drawing a rubber band in a device consisting of eyelets and hooks

5

Cutting out a predefined triangle located on a rubber glove

6

Leading needle and thread in the correct order through eyelets screwed on a board

7

Closing a 5 cm cut on foam with a running suture

8

Attaching a simple interrupted stitch on foam