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Applying Elite Tennis Paradigms to Surgical Performance

JAMA Surgery 10.1001/jamasurg.2025.4644

October 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM EDT

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This Viewpoint discusses an approach to the assessment of surgeons’ technical and nontechnical skills that compares the analysis of performance in surgery vs an elite sport.

Corresponding Author: Connor Boyle, MBChB, Centre for Medical Informatics, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, 5 Little France Rd, Edinburgh, EH16 4UX, United Kingdom (connor.boyle@ed.ac.uk).

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