What Click Helps Doctors Learn and Retain Skills More Precisely? No Mouse Needed

Medical education is primarily a didactic experience with extensive correction of mistakes. Yet when you consider human performance metrics it is really important to remember that humans are mammals. The science of animal training has been perfected since B. F. Skinner first brought the ideas of respondent behavior and operant behavior together under one animal behavior umbrella. Which specialty is now training residents and medical students with chicken clicker training techniques? Orthopedic surgeons. Let's see how it works.

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Levy IM, Pryor KW, McKeon TR. Is Teaching Simple Surgical Skills Using an Operant Learning Program More Effective Than Teaching by Demonstration? Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 2016;474(4):945-955. doi:10.1007/s11999-015-4555-8.

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