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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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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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