Validation study of a virtual reality robotic simulatorrole as an assessment tool?

Journal of Urology

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 998-1002

  Lee, Jason Y ^a,b   Mucksavage, Phillip ^a,b   Kerbl, David C ^a,b   Huynh, Victor B ^a,b   Etafy, Mohamed ^a,b   McDougall, Elspeth M ^a,b  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical competence; education; medical; robotics; surgery; urology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; FACE VALIDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB EXPERIENCE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; ROBOTICS; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATOR; SURGEON; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; ROBOTICS; UROLOGIC DISEASES; UROLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84862817346     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2011.10.160     Document Type: Article

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