Senior obstetric-gynecologic residents' perceptions of their surgical training, experiences and skill.

Senior obstetric and gynecologic residents' self-perceptions of surgical skill seem to be unrelated to the kinds of didactic experiences received or to the number of basic gynecologic procedures performed during training. These data offer further support for the need for a comprehensive reevaluation of the components of gynecologic surgical curricula; the cognitive, behavioral and psychomotor educational objectives of such training; and the methods by which the outcomes for these objectives are measured.