Harnessing Technology for Evidence-Based Education and Training in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Abstract

Training specific surgical skills on simulators has been proven to bring a better prepared student to a human operating room, and when the simulator-trained student performs a portion of a procedure fewer errors are made when compared to a learner who has not been trained on a simulator. This current study seeks to further this work by first developing a curriculation for training an entire procedure, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, using simulation technologies and integrating cognitive, psychomotor aspects of full procedure training, and second to test the effectiveness of curriculum-based training through a multicenter, international research group, the MASTER group.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA460758

Entities

People

  • C. D. Smith

Organizations

  • Emory University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Curriculum
  • Education
  • Simulators
  • Students
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Trauma or Military Medicine