What are essential laparoscopic skills these days? Results of the SAGES Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) Committee technical skills survey by Seymour, Neal E., Nepomnayshy, Dmitry, De, Suvranu, Banks, Erika, Breitkopf, Daniel M., Campagna, Ryan, Gomez-Garibello, Carlos, Green, Isabel, Jacobsen, Garth, Korndorffer, James R., Minasi, John, Okrainec, Allan, Matthew Ritter, E., Sankaranarayanan, Ganesh, Schwaitzberg, Steven, Soper, Nathaniel J., Vassiliou, Melina, Wagner, Maryam, Zevin, Boris

“…Introduction The Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) program tests basic knowledge and skills required to perform laparoscopic surgery…”

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Cost Comparison of Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Training Completed With Standard Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Equipment versus Low-Cost Equipment by Franklin, Brenton R., Placek, Sarah B., Wagner, Mercy D., Haviland, Sarah M., O’Donnell, Mary T., Ritter, E. Matthew

“…Training for the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) skills test can be expensive…”

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Haptic based fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery simulation for training with objective assessments by Abinaya, P., Manivannan, M.

“…Force is crucial for learning psychomotor skills in laparoscopic tissue manipulation. Fundamental laparoscopic surgery (FLS), on the other hand, only measures…”

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Surgical simulation in Africa: the feasibility and impact of a 3-day fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery course by Okrainec, Allan, Smith, Lloyd, Azzie, Georges

“… in resource-restricted countries. The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility and impact of a 3-day Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS…”

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Changes in functional neuroimaging measures as novices gain proficiency on the fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery suturing task by Fu, Yaoyu, Walia, Pushpinder, Schwaitzberg, Steven D., Intes, Xavier, De, Suvranu, Dutta, Anirban, Cavuoto, Lora

“… Twenty-one subjects completed 15 sessions of training on the fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery (FLS…”

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Systematic development of a proctor certification examination for the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery testing program by Ritter, E. Matthew, Brissman, Inga C.

“…The fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery (FLS) examination is administered by proctors around the world…”

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Impact of one-to-one tutoring on fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery (FLS) passing rate in a single center experience outside the United States: a randomized controlled trial by Gheza, Federico, Raimondi, Paolo, Solaini, Leonardo, Coccolini, Federico, Baiocchi, Gian Luca, Portolani, Nazario, Tiberio, Guido Alberto Massimo

“…Background Outside the US, FLS certification is not required and its teaching methods are not well standardized. Even if the FLS was designed as “stand alone”…”

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Outcomes of Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) mastery training standards applied to an ergonomically different, lower cost platform by Placek, Sarah B., Franklin, Brenton R., Haviland, Sarah M., Wagner, Mercy D., O’Donnell, Mary T., Cryer, Chad T., Trinca, Kristen D., Silverman, Elliott, Matthew Ritter, E.

“… Methods Subjects completed a pre-training FLS skills test on the standard platform and were then randomized to train on the FLS training platform ( n  = 20…”

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Hypnosis-induced mental training improves performance on the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) simulator by Sroka, Gideon, Arnon, Zahi, Laniado, Monica, Schiff, Elad, Matter, Ibrahim

“… on a laparoscopic simulator, as compared to a non-specific relaxing intervention. Methods 11 surgeons completed a proficiency-based training program on the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS…”

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Camera navigation and cannulation: validity evidence for new educational tasks to complement the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Program by Watanabe, Yusuke, Matt Ritter, E., Schwaitzberg, Steven D., Korndorffer, James R., Scott, Daniel J., Okrainec, Allan, Bilgic, Elif, Kaneva, Pepa A., O’Donnell, Mary T., Feldman, Liane S., Fried, Gerald M., Vassiliou, Melina C.

“…Background Experts identified camera navigation and cannulation as important skills that are not assessed by the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS…”

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Concurrent validity of augmented reality metrics applied to the fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery (FLS) by Ritter, E. M., Kindelan, T. W., Michael, C., Pimentel, E. A., Bowyer, M. W.

“…Current skills assessment in the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) program is labor intensive, requiring one proctor for every 1-2 subjects…”

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Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) Manual Skills Assessment: Surgeon vs Nonsurgeon Raters by Rooney, Deborah M., Santos, Byron F., Hungness, Eric S.

“…) fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery (FLS) program for board certification in general surgery…”

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Comparison of precision and speed in laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgical task performance by Zihni, Ahmed, Gerull, William D., Cavallo, Jaime A., Ge, Tianjia, Ray, Shuddhadeb, Chiu, Jason, Brunt, L. Michael, Awad, Michael M.

“… We compared measures of quality and efficiency of Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery task performance on these platforms in novices and experienced laparoscopic and robotic surgeons…”

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The entrustable professional activities of laparoscopic surgery: moving toward an integrated training model by Gomez-Garibello, Carlos, Wagner, Maryam, Seymour, Neal, Okrainec, Allan, Vassiliou, Melina

“…). Methods The framework of reference of LS was created with data gathered from a literature review and during series of educational retreats with subject matter experts (SMEs…”

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Comprehension of fundamental knowledge about pediatric endoscopic surgery: a cross-sectional study in Japan by Yokoyama, Shinichiro, Kurashima, Yo, Ieiri, Satoshi, Yamataka, Atsuyuki, Okuyama, Hiroomi, Uchida, Hiroo, Ishimaru, Tetsuya, Hirano, Satoshi

“… The questions were created based on the fields covered by the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery ™ (FLS…”

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An Integrated Electroencephalography and Eye-Tracking Analysis Using eXtreme Gradient Boosting for Mental Workload Evaluation in Surgery by Shafiei, Somayeh B., Shadpour, Saeed, Mohler, James L.

“… Method EEG and eye-tracking data from 26 participants performing Matchboard and Ring Walk tasks from the da Vinci simulator and the pattern cut and suturing tasks from the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS…”

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Proficiency training on a virtual reality robotic surgical skills curriculum by Bric, Justin, Connolly, Michael, Kastenmeier, Andrew, Goldblatt, Matthew, Gould, Jon C.

“… A validated laparoscopic surgical skills curriculum (Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery or FLS…”

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FLS tasks can be used as an ergonomic discriminator between laparoscopic and robotic surgery by Zihni, Ahmed M., Ohu, Ikechukwu, Cavallo, Jaime A., Ousley, Jenny, Cho, Sohyung, Awad, Michael M.

“…) to describe a method for identifying ergonomic differences between laparoscopic and robotic platforms using validated Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) tasks…”

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Transfer and priming of surgical skills across minimally invasive surgical platforms by Zihni, Ahmed, Ge, Tianjia, Ray, Shuddhadeb, Wang, Robert, Liang, Zhe, Cavallo, Jaime A., Awad, Michael M.

“… Twenty-six subjects naïve to RALS were recruited to perform three Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery tasks on both TLS and RALS platforms…”

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Construction and Validation of a Low-Cost Laparoscopic Simulator for Surgical Education by Wong, Jared, Bhattacharya, Gaurav, Vance, Steven J., Bistolarides, Peter, Merchant, Aziz M.

“…To construct a trainer that would achieve the equivalent goals of the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS…”

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