Abstract

Technological advances over the last 10 years have opened up a new venue for surgical teaching. The introduction of simulators and virtual reality provide a place to gain surgical experience without putting patients at risk.[1] We have accepted this great advantage and simply inserted simulators wherever possible into our current training experience. As simulation is put into place and tested, we realize we should also improve the method with which we learn.[2] The traditional Halsteadian method of teaching surgery was based on an apprenticeship model because there was no viable alternative to learning on the human. Hand-in-hand with this limitation was the necessity for experts to be the teachers and for the teaching moments to be moved along by the progress of the case in the operating room without the option of re-doing an error or stopping at a critical moment to ask questions. As a new generation of …

Date

2004

Authors

Tiffany Grunwald, Dick Clark, Scott S Fishers, Margaret McLaughlin, Shrikanth Narayanan, Diane Piepol

Book

Medicine meets virtual reality 12

Pages

114-120

Publisher

IOS Press