Telementoring versus on-site mentoring in virtual reality-based surgical training

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-118

  Panait, L ^a   Rafiq, A ^a   Tomulescu, V ^b   Boanca, C ^b   Popescu, I ^b   Carbonell, A ^a   Merrell, R C ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FUNDENI CLINICAL INSTITUTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

Laparoscopic skills; Surgical training; Telementoring; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATOR; SKILL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; TELECONFERENCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MENTORS; SURGERY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TELEMEDICINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 30744448187     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0113-x     Document Type: Article

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