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. 2007 Jul-Sep;11(3):273–302.

Module 3: Retract and Dissect

Proficiency = 105.6126 − 0.244 Total time − 6.8972 Dissected outside target left − 5.3848 Dissected outside target right − 1.3444 Lost aligned pod left − 10.7167 Lost aligned pod right

Variables Measured and Criterion Percentile Values
Variable 10 25 50 75 90
Total time 40.8 37.5 32 28 23.5
Tip-trajectory 126.543 79.923 75.77 70.803 61.879
Burning-in-air time-left 0.624 0.437 0.242 0 0
Burning-in-air time-right 0.483 0.354 0.143 0.021 0
Tissue overstretched-left 0.25 0.25 0 0 0
Tissue overstretched-right 0.975 0.562 0.25 0 0
Dissected outside target-left 0.5 0.312 0.125 0
Dissected outside target-right 0.7 0.5 0.25 0 0
Dissected pod-not aligned-left 0.45 0.25 0 0 0
Dissected pod-not-aligned-right 0.5 0.25 0.25 0 0
Lost-aligned pod-left 0.25 0.25 0 0 0
Lost-aligned pod-right 0.225 0 0 0 0
Proficiency score 84.162 89.144 93.725 96.079 97.41

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

Total time 22.077 25.44 32.167 38.893 42.256
Tip-trajectory 47.198 59.383 83.754 108.125 120.311
Burning-in-air time-left −0.159 −0.012 0.282 0.575 0.72
Burning-in-air time-right −0.09 0.008 0.206 0.404 0.503
Tissue overstretched-left −0.089 −0.025 0.104 0.233 0.297
Tissue overstretched-right −0.286 −0.052 0.417 0.885 1.12
Dissected outside target-left −0.304 −0.119 0.25 0.619 0.804
Dissected outside target-right −0.183 −0.039 0.25 0.539 0.683
Dissected pod-not aligned-left −0.134 −0.038 0.154 0.346 0.442
Dissected pod-not-aligned-right −0.12 −0.016 0.192 0.4 0.504
Lost-aligned pod-left −0.101 −0.04 0.083 0.206 0.268
Lost-aligned pod-right −0.104 −0.056 0.042 0.139 0.188
Proficiency score 83.783 86.527 92.014 97.501 100.245