Correlating virtual reality and box trainer tasks in the assessment of laparoscopic surgical skills

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 546.e1-546.e4

  Newmark, Jordan ^b   Dandolu, Vani ^a   Milner, Richard ^a   Grewal, Harsh ^a   Harbison, Sean ^a   Hernandez, Enrique ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

box trainer; virtual reality simulator

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SKILL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL SCIENCE; SWEDEN; TRAINING; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 35548948417     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2007.07.026     Document Type: Article

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