Emerging changes in health-care delivery are having a significant impact on the structure of
health-care professionals' education. Today it is recognized that medical knowledge …

BACKGROUND: Computer-based surgical simulators create a no-risk virtual environment
where surgeons can develop and refine skills through harmless repetition. These …

Background: While performing surgeries in the OR, surgeons and assistants often need to
access several information regarding surgical planning and/or procedures related to the …

Visualization in Medicine is the first book on visualization and its application to problems in
medical diagnosis, education, and treatment. The book describes the algorithms, the …

OBJECTIVE: Mastery of the neurosurgical skill set involves many hours of supervised
intraoperative training. Convergence of political, economic, and social forces has limited …

Purpose A virtual reality (VR) system, where surgeons can practice procedures on virtual
anatomies, is a scalable and cost-effective alternative to cadaveric training. The fully …

Background Patient-specific virtual reality simulation (PSVR) is a new technological
advancement that allows practice of upcoming real operations and complements the …

Objectives/Hypothesis Current three‐dimensional (3D) printed simulations are complicated
by insufficient void spaces and inconsistent density. We describe a novel simulation with …

Bone dissection is an important component of many surgical procedures. In this paper, we
discuss a haptic and visual simulation of a bone-cutting burr that is being developed as a …

Objective To conduct a systematic review of published articles that describe simulators that
could be used in otolaryngology for education, skill acquisition, and/or skill improvement …