Virtual Reality Applied to Procedural Testing: The Next Era

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 237, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 442-448

  Bloom, Matthew B ^a   Rawn, Chantal L ^a   Salzberg, Arnold D ^a   Krummel, Thomas M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUING EDUCATION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; GENERAL SURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; TRAINING; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; VIRTUAL REALITY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EDUCATION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; SURGERY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; GASTROENTEROLOGY; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MODELS, ANATOMIC; SURGERY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 85047691365     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SLA.0000055279.50681.80     Document Type: Article

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