One of the most important health care services is emergency medical service as it plays a
vital role in saving people's lives and reducing the rate of mortality and morbidity. Over the …

Background Endoscopy has traditionally been taught with novices practicing on real patients
under the supervision of experienced endoscopists. Recently, the growing awareness of the …

EDUCATING PHYSICIANS The current blueprint for medical education in North America
was drawn up in 1910 by Abraham Flexner in his report Medical Education in the United …

Background This study examined the impact of virtual reality (VR) surgical simulation on
improvement of psychomotor skills relevant to the performance of laparoscopic …

Virtual reality (VR) is the three-dimensional digital representation of a real or imagined
space with interactive capabilities. The application of VR for organizational training …

Surgical training is changing: one hundred years of tradition is being challenged by legal
and ethical concerns for patient safety, work hours restrictions, the cost of operating room …

Background Technology allowing a remote, experienced surgeon to provide real-time
guidance to local surgeons has great potential for training and capacity building in medical …

The Work Group for Evaluation and Implementation of Simulators and Skills Training
Programmes is a newly formed sub-group of the European Association of Endoscopic …

Background: Over years, surgical training is changing and years of tradition are being
challenged by legal and ethical concerns for patient safety, work hour restrictions, and the …

BACKGROUND: Teaching of technical surgical skills to undergraduate medical students in a
laboratory setting away from the patient is not common practice. Because of the large …