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. 2007 Jul-Sep;11(3):273–302.

Module 1: Gallbladder Dissection

Proficiency = 109.0262 − 0.0398 Total time − 0.0238 Tip trajectory

Variables Measured and Criterion Percentile Values
Variable 10 25 50 75 90
Total time 335.3 296 213 188.5 176.5
Tip-trajectory 475.579 370.53 319.762 237.19 204.669
Burning-in-air time 13.242 7.733 3.5 1.804 1.276
Tissue overstretched 5 4.25 2.5 1 1
Dissection-outside-target 24.8 14 8 3 3
Proficiency score 85.024 88.044 92.922 96.066 97.782

Means ± Standard Deviations for Each Variable
Variable −1.5 −1 0 +1 +1.5

Total time 122.734 163.962 246.417 328.872 370.099
Tip-trajectory 104.294 184.53 345.003 505.476 585.712
Burning-in-air time −2.143 0.372 5.402 10.432 12.947
Tissue overstretched −4.531 −1.715 3.917 9.549 12.365
Dissection-outside-target −2.752 1.652 10.462 19.271 23.675
Proficiency score 80.47 83.977 90.99 98.003 101.51