The Journal of the American Board of Family Practice / American Board of Family Practice
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J Am Board Fam Pract · Nov 1998
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialVirtual reality flexible sigmoidoscopy simulator training: impact on resident performance.
Flexible sigmoidoscopy, a core skill for the primary care physician, requires learned hand-eye skills that can be difficult to master during residency training. With recent advances in virtual reality simulation technology, simulated flexible sigmoidoscopes are available to family medicine residents for training before their initial and subsequent live patient examinations. The purpose of the study was to determine whether a virtual reality flexible sigmoidoscope simulator would improve the hand-eye skills and various performance parameters in a live patient. ⋯ This study shows the value of virtual reality simulator training for accelerating the development of the hand-eye skills to perform adequate sigmoidoscopy.