By Richard M. Satava, Achille Gaspari, Nicola Lorenzo

Tremendous acceleration and adjustments in medical discovery and growth are almost immediately occuring. those vital rising applied sciences that might have an effect on the training health practitioner in the subsequent 10 to twenty years are illustrated intimately during this quantity. Its objective isn't to check scientific event of the typical surgical perform of the prior decade, yet to stipulate and illustrate the long run tendencies. overseas specialists during this box exhibit rising techniques and important advances.

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Ideally, proficiency levels should be set nationally or internationally. While national or international proficiency levels on VR simulators may be some way off, proficiency levels can be set locally in each training program or hospital. The Yale VR to OR study and the Emory VR to OR study has shown the power of this approach [8, 10]. The whole point of training is not simply to improve performance, but also to make it more consistent. Indeed performing well consistently is emerging as one of the key indicators of training success [8, 12].

The whole point of training is not simply to improve performance, but also to make it more consistent. Indeed performing well consistently is emerging as one of the key indicators of training success [8, 12]. Proficiency-based training as a new approach to the acquisition of procedural-based medical skills took a giant leap forward in April 2004. As part of the roll-out of a new device for carotid angioplasty and stenting, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated, as part of the device approval package, metricbased training to proficiency on a VR simulator as the required training approach for physicians who will be using the new device [19].

Nowadays WebSurg can be connected via PDAs, hence not only increasing its accessibility, but also placing it at the cutting edge of technology. Giving access to regularly updated data to a greater number of healthcare professionals gives them the possibility of using the latest innovative means of communication. 5 Other Educational Services The educational sector and value of the World Virtual University represented by WebSurg is also complemented by the presentation of typical clinical cases showing outstanding or common data from patients operated on by laparoscopy.

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