A prospective randomized study to test the transfer of basic psychomotor skills from virtual reality to physical reality in a comparable training setting

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 241, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 442-449

  Lehmann, Kai S ^a   Ritz, Joerg P ^a   Maass, Heiko ^a   Çakmak, Hueseyin K ^a   Kuehnapfel, Uwe G ^a   Germer, Christoph T ^a   Bretthauer, Georg ^a   Buhr, Heinz J ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; TECHNIQUE; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; LAPAROSCOPY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE; SURGERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 14544289185     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000154552.89886.91     Document Type: Article

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