Virtual Reality: Keyhole Surgeons Training Could Help Meet European Working Time Directives
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 21:28
in Mathematics & Economics
Trainee surgeons who add virtual-reality training to standard "apprenticeship" training in key-hole surgery learn more quickly, work with greater accuracy and have less errors than those with no virtual-reality training, and perform as well as those who use additional video training. The finding is important because training surgeons is time-consuming and costly, and surgeons have to develop new skills while working within the hour limits set by European legislation.