Construction and validation of a low-cost laparoscopic simulator for surgical education

Journal of Surgical Education

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 443-450

  Wong, Jared ^a   Bhattacharya, Gaurav ^a   Vance, Steven J ^a   Bistolarides, Peter ^a   Merchant, Aziz M ^a  

^a Children's Hospital of Michigan   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery; laparoscopic trainer; surgical education; surgical simulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMERA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATOR; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84878399849     PISSN: 19317204     EISSN: 18787452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2013.02.004     Document Type: Article

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