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Additional research is warranted to more directly define the relationship

between crowdsourced evaluation and surgical development among trainees.

Particularly in the areas of live operative feedback, individualized formative

feedback, and assessment of nontechnical competencies, the role of large-scale

evaluation platforms is yet to be explored. The efficacy of this technology as part

of a formalized surgical skills curriculum remains to be fully assessed. However,

given the initial promise of crowdsourcing as an emerging technology in surgical

education, this has already begun to be introduced into surgical training curricula

across a few institutions. As the value of large-scale feedback becomes further

established, this platform is poised to become more widely adopted across surgi-

cal training programs and practices and has the potential to become an integral

component of our model of surgical skills development in the future.

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