Sensory and motor skill testing in neurosurgery applicants: A pilot study using a virtual reality haptic neurosurgical simulator

Neurosurgery

Volumn 73, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2013, Pages

  Roitberg, Ben ^a   Banerjee, Pat ^b,c   Luciano, Cristian ^b,c   Matulyauskas, Martin ^b   Rizzi, Silvio ^b   Kania, Patrick ^c   Gasco, Jaime ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^c ImmersiveTouch Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aptitude testing; Education; Haptics; Neurosurgery; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; MEMORY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROSURGERY; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SURGICAL TRAINING; TACTILE FEEDBACK; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ADULT; APTITUDE TESTS; BONE SCREWS; BRAIN; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROSURGERY; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SCHOOL ADMISSION CRITERIA; SPINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84884995980     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000089     Document Type: Article

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