Virtual reality simulators: Valuable surgical skills trainers or video games?

Journal of Surgical Education

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 426-433

  Willis, Ross E ^a   Gomez, Pedro Pablo ^a   Ivatury, Srinivas J ^a   Mitra, Hari S ^a   Van Sickle, Kent R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

physical model; simulation; surgical education; virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COLONOSCOPY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIKERT SCALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; SELF REPORT; SIMULATOR; SURGICAL TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION; GENERAL SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; MEDICAL EDUCATION;

COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL SURGERY; LAPAROSCOPY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 84899949310     PISSN: 19317204     EISSN: 18787452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2013.11.003     Document Type: Article

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