Objective skills assessment and construct validation of a virtual reality temporal bone simulator

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1225-1231

  Khemani, Sameer ^a   Arora, Asit ^b   Singh, Arvind ^c   Tolley, Neil ^b   Darzi, Ara ^d  

^a SURREY AND SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mastoid surgery; Otology; Surgical training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EAR SURGERY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; TEMPORAL BONE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; OTOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TEMPORAL BONE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84865603417     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e31825e7977     Document Type: Article

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