Clinical scienceImpact of laparoscopy simulator training on the technical skills of future surgeons in the operating room: a prospective study
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Materials and Methods
Between May 2007 and July 2008, we performed a monocenter prospective study over a period of 3 residency rotations. The impact of the 3 training rotations on STS was estimated in a single blind comparison with a validated tool: the Global Operative Assessment of Laparoscopic Skills (GOALS) score.
The participants in the study were general surgery or gynecology-obstetrics residents joining the general and digestive surgery Department at the North Hospital in Marseille for 1 rotation. They were
Results
Nineteen candidates were included in the study and evaluated. The 3 groups were comparable in seniority and in the number of rotations of laparoscopic surgeries performed (Table 1). As for the laparoscopic tasks performed by each resident during the study, there was no significant difference between the 3 groups in terms of overall laparoscopic tasks (operator or assistant operator) but there was a significant difference in procedures as operator between the MISTELS and the control groups in
Comments
Our study revealed a significant difference in STS progression between the groups who benefitted from simulator training and the control group. We did not note a significant difference in progression between the MISTELS group (a relatively inexpensive simulator) and the LAP Mentor group (a more expensive one). The efficacy of the surgical simulation was broadly studied for the acquisition of basic tasks for the beginners22, 23, 24 on models that were more or less true to reality.25 There are 4
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