Can virtual reality be used to measure and train surgical skills?

Ergonomics

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 362-379

  Arnold, Paul ^a   Farrell, Martin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Motor skills learning; Surgical skills; Virtual environments; Virtual surgery

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; RAILROADS; SURGERY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

TRAIN;

ERGONOMICS;

COMPETENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REVIEW; SIMULATOR; SKILL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0037091964     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130110120529     Document Type: Review

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