The development of a virtual reality training curriculum for colonoscopy

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 188-192

  Sugden, Colin ^a   Aggarwal, Rajesh ^a   Banerjee, Amrita ^a   Haycock, Adam ^b   Thomas Gibson, Siwan ^b   Williams, Christopher B ^b   Darzi, Ara ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FORCE; HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGMOID; SIMULATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL PATIENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSVERSE COLON; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRICULUM; HUMANS; LEARNING CURVE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84863319190     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31825b6e9c     Document Type: Article

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