Comparison of the sensitivity of physical and virtual laparoscopic surgical training simulators to the user's level of experience

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1211-1215

  Avgerinos, D V ^a,b   Goodell, K H ^a   Waxberg, S ^b   Cao, C G L ^b   Schwaitzberg, S D ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) surgical simulator; Laparoscopic skills; Laparoscopic surgery; Minimally Invasive Surgical Trainer Virtual Reality (MIST VR) surgical simulator; Simulation; Surgical training; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATOR; SKILL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LAPAROSCOPY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 27644504490     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-004-8256-8     Document Type: Article

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