This book aimed to develop a new and practical global rating scale with competent psychometric properties for objective assessment of teaching of technical skills in surgery. Although there are several tools that are already available for this purpose (assessment of teaching), some of these tools assessed the teaching of clinical skills and others assessed the skills.Meanwhile, our tool is concerned with the assessment of teaching surgical technical skills. In addition, the psychometric properties in our tool have been tested while these properties in other tools were not assessed properly....

MRCS Part A is a professional degree. It depends greatly on work experience and proper handling of a clinical problem. Therefore, the correct answer may differ according to the local hospital guidelines. However, there must be broad or basic rules in surgical practice.MRCS Part A exam consists of two parts taken on the same day. The first part deals with 'Applied Basic Sciences' and the second part tests the 'Principles of Surgery-in-General'. A passing mark should be achieved in both parts.Successful passing of the Intercollegiate Part A Examination qualifies the trainee surgeon to enter the...