FLS Objectives

To improve the quality of care received by patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery
To set minimum standards for basic cognitive and technical skills used in performing laparoscopic procedures
To provide surgeons practicing laparoscopy with standardized didactic information on the fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery and a tool to assist in development of judgment and manual skills
To create an objective quantifiable measure to assess knowledge, judgment and manual skills in basic laparoscopic surgery
To make available to hospitals and institutions a validated tool to measure the knowledge and skills fundamental to the performance of laparoscopic surgery

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