Virtual reality as a metric for the assessment of laparoscopic psychomotor skills: Learning curves and reliability measures

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1746-1752

  Gallagher, A G ^a,b   Satava, R M ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Laparoscopy; Metrics; Minimally Invasive Surgical Trainer Virtual Reality (MIST VR); Objective assessment; Psychomotor skills; Reliability; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY; SKILL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LEARNING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0036914189     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-001-8215-6     Document Type: Article

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