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Recent evidence on visual-spatial ability in surgical education: A scoping review

“…9,12,17 Further, the CR and CC tests were some of the more frequently studied measures in this review. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]76 Measuring VSA in surgical trainees is important not only because the results suggest that individuals with higher VSA often demonstrate increased surgical performance, 4,10,16,22,31,32,35,36,[44][45][46][48][49][50]52,54,55 but also that those with higher VSA often require fewer training sessions to reach a certain performance point than their peers with lower VSA. 4,10,16,32,35,36,46,[52][53][54] Future research should aim to determine the scores on VSA tests that may result in educationally relevant differences in learning technical skills.…”

“…[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]76 Measuring VSA in surgical trainees is important not only because the results suggest that individuals with higher VSA often demonstrate increased surgical performance, 4,10,16,22,31,32,35,36,[44][45][46][48][49][50]52,54,55 but also that those with higher VSA often require fewer training sessions to reach a certain performance point than their peers with lower VSA. 4,10,16,32,35,36,46,[52][53][54] Future research should aim to determine the scores on VSA tests that may result in educationally relevant differences in learning technical skills. The evidence from this review suggests that trainees with higher VSA compared to their peers may learn surgical skills faster, thus privileging later clinical learning and allowing them to advance beyond their peers.…”

“…Eleven studies reported that individuals with high VSA scores required less training time to reach proficiency on simulation tasks when compared to individuals with low VSA scores, regardless of which VSA component was evaluated. 4,10,16,32,35,36,46,[52][53][54][55] In contrast, seven studies reported no such difference between the training time required to reach proficiency between those with high VSA scores and those with low VSA scores. 31,50,56,57,[57][58][59][60] Further, five studies did not find an association between VSA scores and simulation performance, [61][62][63][64][65] while one found an association between only perceptual speed, and not visualization or spatial orientation, and simulation performance.…”

“…22,47,48,54,55,57,74,75 e115 component Evaluated in x articles No. of articles reporting a significant correlation between VSA and performance on surgical simulators Visualization 38 28/381,7,10,11,16,22,28,29,32,33,39,44,[46][47][48][50][51][52]54,57,70,74,75,107,[112][113][114][115]…”