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Purpose:

To study the feasibility and efficacy of a new remote wet lab for microsurgical education using a corneal suturing task.

Setting:

Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.

Design:

Prospective randomized controlled study.

Methods:

Ten ophthalmology residents were stratified by postgraduate year and randomized to perform a corneal suturing task consisting of placing the 4 cardinal sutures for a penetrating keratoplasty in porcine eyes with or without remote ophthalmology attending feedback. Subsequently, both groups repeated the same task without remote feedback to test whether initial remote feedback affected subsequent performance. Finally, the group without feedback was crossed over to repeat the same corneal suturing task with remote feedback. The effectiveness of the remote wet lab was assessed subjectively by survey and objectively by …