Deliberate practice on a virtual reality laparoscopic simulator enhances the quality of surgical technical skills

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1216-1222

  Crochet, Patrice ^a   Aggarwal, Rajesh ^a   Dubb, Sukhpreet Singh ^a   Ziprin, Paul ^a   Rajaretnam, Niroshini ^a   Grantcharov, Teodor ^b   Ericsson, K Anders ^c   Darzi, Ara ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SIMULATION; SIMULATOR; SKILL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ANIMALS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; SWINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957460430     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182197016     Document Type: Article

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