Current Research Projects-Laparoscopic training

Laparoscopic Skills: Who should be trained?
Mohamad W. Salkini, MD; Alyson Knapp; and Allan J. Hamilton, MD

Simulators are of proven value in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) training, as the acquired skills are transferable into the clinical laparoscopic surgery.

MIS is well known to have long and variable learning curves. If successive generations of surgeons were able to cut down on training time, and learning curves could plateau earlier with each generation of surgeons, then how early in the medical education can we integrate laparoscopic skills?

View a PDF of the poster presented at American Urological Association Annual Meeting 2006 and at the 6th Annual International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, Jan. 2006.