Can virtual reality simulator be used as a training aid to improve cadaver temporal bone dissection? Results of a randomized blinded control trial

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 831-837

  Zhao, Yi C ^a   Kennedy, Gregor ^a   Yukawa, Kumiko ^a   Pyman, Brian ^a   Stephen O'Leary, ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

cadaveric temporal bone dissection; objective assessment of temporal bone dissection.; temporal bone surgery; Virtual reality simulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MASTOIDECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TRAINING; TEMPORAL BONE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; TEMPORAL BONE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79953105284     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21287     Document Type: Article

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