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Presentation of automated procedural guidance in surgical simulation: results of two randomised controlled trials
S Wijewickrema1, Y Zhou1, I Ioannou1
1Department of Surgery (Otolaryngology),University of Melbourne,Australia.
Objective:
To investigate the effectiveness and usability of automated procedural guidance during virtual temporal bone surgery.
Methods:
Two randomised controlled trials were performed to evaluate the effectiveness, for medical students, of two presentation modalities of automated real-time procedural guidance in virtual reality simulation: full and step-by-step visual presentation of drillable areas. Presentation modality effectiveness was determined through a comparison of participants' dissection quality, evaluated by a blinded otologist, using a validated assessment scale.
Results:
While the provision of automated guidance on procedure improved performance (full presentation, p = 0.03; step-by-step presentation, p < 0.001), usage of the two different presentation modalities was vastly different (full presentation, 3.73 per cent; step-by-step presentation, 60.40 per cent).
Conclusion:
Automated procedural guidance in virtual temporal bone surgery is effective in improving trainee performance. Step-by-step presentation of procedural guidance was engaging, and therefore more likely to be used by the participants.
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