Democratizing Flexible Endoscopy Training: Noninferiority Randomized Trial Comparing a Box-Trainer vs a Virtual Reality Simulator to Prepare for the Fundamental of Endoscopic Surgery Exam.

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Date publication

mars 2022

Journal

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Auteurs

Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr MARESCAUX Jacques


Tous les auteurs :
Mascagni P, Spota A, Pizzicannella M, Laracca GG, Svendrovski A, Fiorillo C, Lim SG, Pool MO, Dallemagne B, Marescaux J, Swanstrom L, Shlomovitz E, Perretta S

Résumé

A considerable number of surgical residents fail the mandated endoscopy exam despite having completed the required clinical cases. Low-cost endoscopy box trainers (BTs) could democratize training; however, their effectiveness was never compared with higher-cost virtual reality simulators (VRSs).

Référence

J Am Coll Surg. 2022 Mar 2;: