AccuTouch Endoscopy Simulator: Development, Applications and Early Experience

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 479-487

  Long, Vandana ^a   Kalloo, Anthony N ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; REVIEW; SIMULATOR; SKILL; TRAINING;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; ENDOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; MARYLAND; TEACHING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33746733641     PISSN: 10525157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giec.2006.03.014     Document Type: Review

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