Simulation is firmly established within health care training but often focuses on training for
technical tasks and can overlook crucial skills such as professionalism and physician …

Training and assessment paradigms for laparoscopic surgical skills are evolving from
traditional mentor–trainee tutorship towards structured, more objective and safer programs …

BACKGROUND: Validating assessment tools in surgical simulation training is critical to
objectively measuring skills. Most reviews do not elicit methodologies for conducting …

Background Virtual reality (VR) is an emerging new modality for laparoscopic skills training;
however, most simulators lack realistic haptic feedback. Augmented reality (AR) is a new …

BACKGROUND: Computer-aided simulators may increase the safety and efficiency of
training in laparoscopic surgery. Before implementation of the Immersion LapSim …

Background To improve patient safety, training of psychomotor laparoscopic skills is often
done on virtual reality (VR) simulators outside the operating room. Haptic sensations have …

BACKGROUND: A demand for safe, efficient laparoscopic training tools has prompted the
introduction of virtual reality (VR) laparoscopic simulators, which might be used for …

Background This study was carried out to investigate whether eye-hand coordination skill on
a virtual reality laparoscopic surgical simulator (the LAP Mentor) was able to differentiate …

OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to validate virtual reality simulation in assessing
laparoscopic skills in gynecology by establishing the extent of realism of the simulation to …

Background: Conventional video trainers lack the ability to assess the trainee objectively,
but offer modalities that are often missing in virtual reality simulation, such as realistic haptic …