TY - GEN
T1 - Validation of SimPL - A simulator for Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage training
AU - Bowyer, Colonel Mark W.
AU - Liu, Alan V.
AU - Bonar, James P.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - This study describes a comparison between an animal model and a haptic enabled, needle based, graphical user interface simulator (SimPL), for teaching Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage (DPL). Forty novice medical students were divided into two groups and then trained to perform a DPL on either a pig or the SimPL. All subjects completed a pre and post test of basic knowledge and were tested by performing a DPL on a TraumaMan™ mannequin and evaluated by two trauma surgeons blinded to group. The results showed significant improvement over baseline knowledge in both groups but more so in the SimPL group. The simulator group performed better on site selection (p<0.001) and technique (p<0.002) than those who trained on a pig. The finding that a simulator is superior to an animal model for teaching an important skill to medical students has profound implications on future training and deserves further study.
AB - This study describes a comparison between an animal model and a haptic enabled, needle based, graphical user interface simulator (SimPL), for teaching Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage (DPL). Forty novice medical students were divided into two groups and then trained to perform a DPL on either a pig or the SimPL. All subjects completed a pre and post test of basic knowledge and were tested by performing a DPL on a TraumaMan™ mannequin and evaluated by two trauma surgeons blinded to group. The results showed significant improvement over baseline knowledge in both groups but more so in the SimPL group. The simulator group performed better on site selection (p<0.001) and technique (p<0.002) than those who trained on a pig. The finding that a simulator is superior to an animal model for teaching an important skill to medical students has profound implications on future training and deserves further study.
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M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 2005138211
AN - SCOPUS:23844483602
SN - 1586034987
SN - 9781586034986
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 64
EP - 67
BT - Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 13
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 13th Annual Conference on Medicine Meets Virtual Reality: The Magical Next Becomes the Medical Now, MMVR 2005
Y2 - 26 January 2005 through 29 January 2005
ER -