Virtual reality colonoscopy simulation: A compulsory practice for the future colonoscopist?

Endoscopy

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1198-1204

  Ahlberg, Gunnar ^a   Hultcrantz, R ^a   Jaramillo, E ^a   Lindblom, A ^a   Arvidsson, D ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONOSCOPY; COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENTERITIS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL POLYPOSIS; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICAL STUDENT; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATOR; THEORETICAL STUDY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COLONIC DISEASES; COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; PATIENT SIMULATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 28844458846     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-921049     Document Type: Article

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