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L Panait¹, A Rafiq, V Tomulescu

¹Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Post Office Box 980480, Richmond, VA 23298, USA.

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|October 26, 2005

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Telementoring, combined with virtual reality surgical simulation, offers comparable surgical skills training to local mentoring. This approach effectively improves performance in tasks like grasping, cutting, and suturing.

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Area of Science:

Medical Education
Surgical Training
Virtual Reality Simulation

Background:

Telementoring serves as a supplementary method for surgical training.
Virtual reality surgical simulation is a key tool in modern surgical education.
Telementoring is hypothesized to be as effective as in-person mentorship.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the efficacy of telementoring in surgical skills acquisition.
To compare telementoring with traditional local mentoring in a virtual reality setting.

Main Methods:

20 medical students trained using LapSim virtual reality simulator.
Participants were divided into telementored (US-based, via videoconferencing) and local mentor groups.
Surgical skill performance was assessed by measuring tool path length and task completion time before and after training.

Main Results:

Both telementoring and local mentoring groups showed significant improvements in surgical task performance (p < 0.05).
Performance gains were observed in grasping, cutting, and suturing tasks.
No significant differences in performance were found between the telementored and locally mentored groups for clip-applying tasks.

Conclusions:

Integrating instructional media with telementoring is as effective as local mentoring for surgical skill development.
Telementoring is a viable and effective method for surgical training, especially when utilizing virtual reality simulators.