A head-to-head comparison between virtual reality and physical reality simulation training for basic skills acquisition

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2550-2558

  Loukas, Constantinos ^a   Nikiteas, Nikolaos ^a   Schizas, Dimitrios ^a   Lahanas, Vasileios ^a   Georgiou, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Education; Laparoscopic surgery; Simulation; Surgical training; Video trainer; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; VIDEORECORDING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84866062917     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-012-2230-7     Document Type: Article

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