Virtual Reality Simulation in Acquiring and Differentiating Basic Ophthalmic Microsurgical Skills
- 1 January 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Simulation in Healthcare: The Journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare
- Vol. 4 (2), 98-103
- https://doi.org/10.1097/sih.0b013e318195419e
Abstract
A virtual reality (VR) surgical simulator (EyeSi ophthalmosurgical simulator: VRMagic, Mannheim, Germany) was evaluated as a part-task training platform for differentiating and developing basic ophthalmic microsurgical skills. Surgical novice performance (residents, interns, and nonmicrosurgical ophthalmic staff) was compared with surgical expert performance (practicing ophthalmic microsurgeons) on a basic navigational microdexterity module provided with the EyeSi simulator. Expert surgeons showed a greater initial facility with all microsurgical tasks. With repeated practice, novice surgeons showed sequential improvement in all performance scores, approaching but not equaling expert performance. VR simulator performance can be used as a gated, quantifiable performance goal to expert-level benchmarks. The EyeSi is a valid part-task training platform that may help develop novice surgeon dexterity to expert surgeon levels.Keywords
This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
- Surgical education and training in the new millenniumSurgical Endoscopy, 2004
- Computer-simulated phacoemulsification1 , *1Ophthalmology, 2004
- Laparoscopic skills trainingSurgical Endoscopy, 2003
- Vitreous Surgery SimulatorAmerican Journal of Ophthalmology, 2000
- Computers and Virtual Reality for Surgical Education in the 21st CenturyArchives of Surgery, 2000
- The phacoemulsification learning curve: Per-operative complications in the first 3000 cases of an experienced surgeonEye, 2000
- Intraoperative complications of 1000 phacoemulsification procedures: A prospective studyJournal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery, 1998
- Virtual Reality Surgical Simulation and OtolaryngologyJAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, 1996
- Ophthalmic microsurgical robot and associated virtual environmentComputers in Biology and Medicine, 1995
- Surgical Practice KitAmerican Journal of Ophthalmology, 1986