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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 12.
Published in final edited form as: Endoscopy. 2014 Apr 25;46(9):735–744. doi: 10.1055/s-0034-1365463

Table 3.

Nine endoscopic part-tasks were further developed based on kinematic analysis of endoscopic examination, literature review, and expert opinion. Five of these nine part-tasks were selected for inclusion in the final training box.

Core technical skills Endoscopic part-task exercise Selected?
Knob control (1) Drawing a line to connect dots No
Knob control (2) Transferring objects from one compartment to another Yes
Torque (1) Navigating through cylinders and detaching rings from the walls No
Torque (2) Transferring rings from one pole to another Yes
Retroflexion (1) Retroflexing to grab hollow cylinders and stacking them onto receptacles No
Retroflexion (2) Transferring objects from a front to a back wall Yes
Snare polypectomy Snaring an object at its base Yes
Foreign body removal Use of forceps to collect differently shaped objects within a maze No
Loop reduction Advancing the scope into a preformed loop, then reducing the loop Yes