The use of a virtual surgical simulator for practicing otosurgery skills in the course of otorhinolaryngology

Ear surgery is a very specific area in which the practical skills differ significantly from other branches of surgery. At present, there no standard for training otosurgery worldwide. The study provides data on use virtual simulator with haptic feedback teaching ear and compares objective results working groups residents, outpatient doctors, ENT doctors professional otosurgeons-experts. found that such increases basic knowledge students anatomy, their spatial understanding structures temporal bone its topography, methods technologies surgery, most important result residents inpatient operating doctors. For polyclinic otorhinolaryngologists, extremely surgical interventions performed patients transferred to them supervision hospitals.