Interest and validity of 3D simulator in otologic surgical training program

Construct, Face, and Content Validation on Voxel-Man® Simulator for Otologic Surgical Training

Objective. To assess the face, content, and construct validity of the Voxel-Man TempoSurg Virtual Reality simulator. Participants and Methods. 74 ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgeons participated. They were assigned to one of two groups according to their level of expertise: the expert group (n = 16) and the novice group (n = 58). The participants performed four temporal bone dissection tasks o...

Fidelity and validity of simulator training

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Surgical simulator for temporal bone dissection training.

UNLABELLED Temporal bone dissection plays an important role in the training of surgeons; however, they are difficult to obtain. AIM To develop a synthetic replica of the temporal bone for dissection training. STUDY DESIGN Experimental. MATERIALS AND METHODS An acrylic synthetic resin replica was obtained from a human temporal bone. For the evaluation of the method, we selected five ear su...

Development of a Tele-Surgical Training Robot and Simulator

Al-Zahrawi is a training robot and simulator for minimal invasive surgery (MIS) or laparoscopic surgery that is being developed at the NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in collaboration with Holy Family Hospital, Pakistan. This ICTR&D funded project is primarily focused towards developing a cost effective solution for training surgeons for conventional and robotically a...