TELMA: Technology-enhanced learning environment for minimally invasive surgery

Abstract

Background: Cognitive skills training for minimally invasive surgery has traditionally relied upon diverse tools, such as seminars or lectures. Web technologies for e-learning have been adopted to provide ubiquitous training and serve as structured repositories for the vast amount of laparoscopic video sources available. However, these technologies fail to offer such features as formative and summative evaluation, guided learning, or collaborative interaction between users.

EVA: Laparoscopic Instrument Tracking Based on Endoscopic Video Analysis for Psychomotor Skills Assessment

“…Halsted-based training is gradually being replaced by structured training programs to optimize the learning curves, time, and efficiency of residents [3]. New learning models state that the direct involvement of residents to real surgeries should be postponed until they have acquired the necessary cognitive and psychomotor skills [4,6]. In this context, the first stages of basic psychomotor skills training take place in controlled laboratory settings by means of box trainers and virtual-reality simulators [2,5,7].…”

AMELIE: Authoring Multimedia-Enhanced Learning Interactive Environment for e-Health Contents

“…The AMELIE tool has been validated in the context of project TELMA, which resulted in the creation of a TEL environment for MIS cognitive skills training [3]. The environment provided surgical trainees ubiquitous access to multimedia didactic units.…”

“…Functionality of the tool, video edition tasks, ease of use and learning and usability were analyzed, in many cases showing good preliminary results. For a complete analysis of results the reader is referred to [3]. In this work we have presented AMELIE, an authoring tool for video-based didactic content creation in e-health applications.…”

Proposal of a trust and reputation model to provide recommendation in open quality oriented environments

“…In this area, Sánchez-González et al (Sánchez-González et al 2011) proposed a TEL environment for the training of surgeons in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) where a recommender system (Romero Zaldivar & Burgos 2010) is used to suggest video resources to users according to their interests. Recent works in the recommendation of relevant and trustworthy healthcare-related information focus on the application of social media and social data enhanced with semantic web technologies .…”

“…The TELMA environment (Sánchez-González et al 2011) is a TEL platform for minimally invasive surgery training. TELMA is based on a four-pillared architecture: (1) an authoring tool for the creation of didactic contents; (2) a learning content and knowledge management system that incorporates a modular and scalable system to capture, catalogue, search, and retrieve multimedia content; (3) an evaluation module that provides learning feedback to users; and (4) a professional network for collaborative learning between users.…”