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Toronto Orthopaedic Boot Camp (TOBC)

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Toronto Orthopaedic Boot Camp (TOBC) is an intensive laboratory-based skills course for incoming residents at the University of Toronto. In this chapter, we share our experiences with establishing a large-scale surgical boot camp that has been demonstrated to accelerate skills acquisition in surgical trainees. The goal of this chapter is to inform other programs that are seeking to incorporate a similar course into their training, and so we focus on practical information that may be helpful such as daily schedules, equipment, assessments, and remediation.

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  1. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Polina Mironova

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Brandon Girardi & David Burns

  3. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    David Burns & Oleg Safir

  4. Surgical Skills Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Oleg Safir

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Correspondence to Polina Mironova .

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  1. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Oleg Safir

  2. Department of Surgery, Office of Education Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Ranil Sonnadara

  3. Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Polina Mironova

  4. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, United Lincolnshire Hospital, Boston, United Kingdom

    Rohit Rambani

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Mironova, P., Girardi, B., Burns, D., Safir, O. (2018). Toronto Orthopaedic Boot Camp (TOBC). In: Safir, O., Sonnadara, R., Mironova, P., Rambani, R. (eds) Boot Camp Approach to Surgical Training. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90518-1_3

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