Medical virtual reality simulation: Enhancing safety through practicing medicine without patients

Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-228

  Scerbo, Mark W ^a,b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Medical Modeling and Simulation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; CURRICULUM; DEVICE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MODEL; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; REVIEW; SAFETY; SIMULATOR; SKILL; SURGICAL TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT SIMULATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2442683053     PISSN: 08998205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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