The basket trainer: A homemade laparoscopic trainer attainable to every resident

The Laparoscopic-Ring Simulation Trainer

Regardless of the level of experience, surgeons need convenient times and locations to practice laparoscopic skills. Although attendance at formal courses is essential for continuing surgical education, reinforcement is still needed by other means to allow surgeons to learn new operations as they advance. A method is presented here that allows surgeons to practice laparoscopic skills while foll...

Assessing the Value of the SimPraxis™ Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Trainer

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our aim was to determine whether the SimPraxis Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Trainer is an effective adjunct for training both junior and senior surgical residents. METHODS During the 2009-2010 academic year, 20 of 27 surgical residents at our institution completed training with the SimPraxis Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Trainer. These 20 residents took an identical 2...

Towards a Virtual Basic Laparoscopic Skill Trainer (VBLaST)

Surgical skill training is a long and tedious process of acquiring fine motor skills. To overcome the drawbacks of the existing toolbox trainer systems, we develop, for the first time, a virtual basic laparoscopic skill trainer (VBLaST) whereby tasks, such as the ones available in the FLS toolbox system, may be performed on the computer.

A Microprocessor Trainer Simulator

Historically, a two semester sequence of courses in microprocessor software and interfacing was taught using a processor such as the Motorola 6800. However, advances in the field have necessitated teaching more advanced microprocessors (such as the Intel 80x86 family) in the

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