BACKGROUND: Historically, the operating room has been the training setting for both surgeons and students. Nowadays, an alternative is represented by surgical simulators. In the same way a not-very-well-built mirror cannot reflect trustworthy images (distortion), a not well-built, calibrated or programmed simulator will be unable to reflect the training level of the operator. Our aim is to indirectly evaluate the Surgical SIM® simulator. METHODS: Twelve surgical residents were classified according to novices, intermediates and experts, and 15 tasks were applied with three dimensions of evaluation in each using the Surgical SIM® simulator. Pearson's correlation test was used to establish validity. RESULTS: In general, from the three dimensions evaluated, results showed a statistically significant difference for time (p = 0.001), trajectory (p = 0.01) and errors (p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Effectiveness of Surgical SIM® was indirectly demonstrated.
BACKGROUND: Historically, the operating room has been the training setting for both surgeons and students. Nowadays, an alternative is represented by surgical simulators. In the same way a not-very-well-built mirror cannot reflect trustworthy images (distortion), a not well-built, calibrated or programmed simulator will be unable to reflect the training level of the operator. Our aim is to indirectly evaluate the Surgical SIM® simulator. METHODS: Twelve surgical residents were classified according to novices, intermediates and experts, and 15 tasks were applied with three dimensions of evaluation in each using the Surgical SIM® simulator. Pearson's correlation test was used to establish validity. RESULTS: In general, from the three dimensions evaluated, results showed a statistically significant difference for time (p = 0.001), trajectory (p = 0.01) and errors (p = 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Effectiveness of Surgical SIM® was indirectly demonstrated.
Authors: Luis H Olivas-Alanis; Ricardo A Calzada-Briseño; Victor Segura-Ibarra; Elisa V Vázquez; Jose A Diaz-Elizondo; Eduardo Flores-Villalba; Ciro A Rodriguez Journal: Sensors (Basel) Date: 2020-12-04 Impact factor: 3.576