Improvement of surgical skills after a three-day practical course for laparoscopic surgery

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 136, Issue 39-40, 2006, Pages 631-636

  Hassan, Iyad ^a   Koller, Michael ^b   Zielke, Andreas ^a   Lehmann, Kai ^c   Rothmund, Matthias ^a   Gerdes, Berthold ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer simulator; Laparoscopy; Minimally invasive surgery; Surgical training; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SURGICAL TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33745016727     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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