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Automaticity: Expertise in task without attention

Surgical Competency (after szasz2015):

Although poorly defined, technical competence is often used as a synonym for technical skill. One useful explanation comes from Mohr et al,124 who described technical competence as the skill to safely and successfully perform the required steps of a particular procedure,

Non-technical skills include teamwork, leadership, situational awareness, and decision making.

“Metacognition is broadly used to describe thinking about one’s thinking and includes both knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition. In the context of this manu- script, metacognition refers to the process of regulating one’s thinking and includes the activities such as reflection, planning, goal setting, evaluation, and monitoring. Reference: Hacker DJ, Bol L, Keener MC (2008). Metacognition in education: a focus on calibration. In: Dunlosky J, Bjork R, editors. Handbook of memory and metacognition. p 429–456.”

Source: Burman, N. J., Boscardin, C. K., & Van Schaik, S. M. (2014). Career-long learning: Relationship between cognitive and metacognitive skills. Medical Teacher, 36(8), 715–723. https://doi.org/10.3109/0142159X.2014.909010