Assessing the Skills of Surgical Residents Using Simulation

Assessing Arthroscopic Skills Using Wireless Elbow-Worn Motion Sensors

“…Simulators can be employed for teaching a number of surgical skills in a safe, standardized, and adaptable environment. There is also opportunity for assessment and feedback, with new methods of assessing and quantifying surgical skill having been developed [12][13][14] . Motion analysis systems have been used in simulation centers to objectively measure technical dexterity and learning of surgical skills [15][16][17][18][19][20][21] , but it has not been possible to use them in the operating room because most are tethered by wires and are based on electromagnetic tracking.…”

Urology technical and non‐technical skills development: the emerging role of simulation

“…The primary relationship is artificial (machine/model vs clinician/patient) The context is lost if performed in a simulation centre Component tasks are required which is different to the wider context and team Simulation activity is imposed externally and carries an assessment component (subject to pass/fail criteria) Randomised controlled trials and collaborative, multi-institutional studies are lacking in the simulation literature and are unlikely to ever come to fruition Table 4 Assessment of validity [6,24,107].…”

An Update to the Proficiency Benchmarks for Surgical Simulation Training in Laparoscopy at Oregon Health and Science University

“…Simulation in medicine allows for the training, certification, maintenance, and remediation of skills for a variety of healthcare providers. Since 1993 when Richard Satava first proposed the used of virtual reality simulation in surgical education 11 , simulation in surgical training has become accepted as a valuable, valid, and necessary method of training future surgeons 12,13 . In fact, starting in VirtuOHSU's core mission "is to provide outstanding leadership in education and training opportunities in surgical skills and simulation" 15 .…”