Medical training using simulation: Toward fewer animals and safer patients

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 1B, 2004, Pages 553-560

  Balcombe, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a Immersion Medical Inc ^*  (United States)

^b PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternatives; Animals; Endoscopy; Medical simulation; Training; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENDOSCOPY; ETHICS; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMALIA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 3042569628     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290403201s90     Document Type: Conference Paper

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