Usefulness of a virtual reality simulator or training box for endoscopic surgery training

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 656-659

  Kimura, T ^a   Kawabe, A ^a   Suzuki, K ^a   Wada, H ^b  

^a Fujinomiya City General Hospital   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Education; Endoscopic surgery; Skills assessment; Surgical training; Training box; Virtual reality simulator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE ENDOSCOPY; INTESTINE SURGERY; MEDICAL STUDENT; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMACH PERFORATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL ERROR; SURGICAL TRAINING; SWINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MEDICAL ERRORS; STOMACH; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SWINE; TEACHING MATERIALS; TIME FACTORS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 33645748047     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0190-x     Document Type: Article

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