PMID- 30358900 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20191121 LR - 20191121 IS - 1600-051X (Electronic) IS - 0303-6979 (Linking) VI - 46 IP - 1 DP - 2019 Jan TI - How do visual-spatial and psychomotor abilities influence clinical performance in periodontal plastic surgery? PG - 72-85 LID - 10.1111/jcpe.13028 [doi] AB - AIM: We want to evaluate the relationship of self-assessed experience and proficiency, manual dexterity and visual-spatial ability with surgical performance. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A total of 26 professionals were included in the study which consisted of four parts: (a) self-assessment by a questionnaire regarding proficiency and experience, (b) evaluation of visual-spatial ability, (c) testing of manual dexterity assessed by validated psychomotor tests and (d) evaluation of surgical performance by Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS). RESULTS: Self-assessed proficiency and experience levels did not correlate with objectively evaluated surgical performances (OSATS). However, low-level visual-spatial ability tests strongly correlated with OSATS while intermediate- and high-level tests did not. No correlation was found between psychomotor ability and clinical performance. CONCLUSIONS: Self-assessed proficiency is not a good predictor for surgical performance as experts tend to be overconfident. To evaluate and predict surgical performance, visual-spatial ability tests seem to be more appropriate than measuring manual dexterity which failed to correlate with the surgical outcome. CI - (c) 2018 John Wiley & Sons A/S. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. FAU - Burkhardt, Rino AU - Burkhardt R AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9612-7089 AD - Prince Philip Dental Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. AD - Universities of Berne and Zurich, Switzerland. FAU - Hammerle, Christoph H F AU - Hammerle CHF AD - Prince Philip Dental Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. AD - Universities of Berne and Zurich, Switzerland. FAU - Lang, Niklaus P AU - Lang NP AD - Prince Philip Dental Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. AD - Universities of Berne and Zurich, Switzerland. CN - Research Group on Oral Soft Tissue Biology & Wound Healing LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20181203 PL - United States TA - J Clin Periodontol JT - Journal of clinical periodontology JID - 0425123 SB - IM MH - Clinical Competence MH - *Surgery, Plastic MH - Surveys and Questionnaires OTO - NOTNLM OT - clinical performance OT - periodontal surgery OT - psychomotor ability OT - skills evaluation EDAT- 2018/10/26 06:00 MHDA- 2019/11/22 06:00 CRDT- 2018/10/26 06:00 PHST- 2017/10/31 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/10/05 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/10/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/10/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/11/22 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/10/26 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/jcpe.13028 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Clin Periodontol. 2019 Jan;46(1):72-85. doi: 10.1111/jcpe.13028. Epub 2018 Dec 3.