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BioDigital Systems, LLC in collaboration with New York University Langone Medical Center Department of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery has created a complex, real-time, step-based simulation platform for plastic surgery education. These simulators combine live surgical footage, interactive 3D visualization, text labels, and voiceover as well as a high-yield, expert-approved testing mode to create a comprehensive virtual educational environment for the plastic surgery resident or physician.
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Cognición , Simulación por Computador , Cirugía Plástica/educación , Interfaz Usuario-Computador , Humanos , Ciudad de Nueva York , Procedimientos Quirúrgicos OperativosRESUMEN
NYU School of Medicine's Division of Educational Informatics in collaboration with BioDigital Systems LLC (New York, NY) has created a virtual human body dataset that is being used for visualization, education and training and is accessible over modern web browsers.
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Educación Médica , Cuerpo Humano , Imagenología Tridimensional , Anatomía , Simulación por Computador , Femenino , Humanos , MasculinoRESUMEN
BioDigital Systems, LLC in collaboration with New York University Langone Medical Center Department of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery has created an interactive, step-based latissimus musculocutaneous flap simulator. Preliminary testing of fourteen residents (PGY1-6) demonstrates that simulator training results in significant improvement in an objective assessment of surgical knowledge (p < 0.0006, pre-training score: 81.0%, post-training score 92.7%). This study is the first in the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery to demonstrate objective improvement in surgical knowledge as a result of simulator training, suggesting the potential effectiveness of simulators for a panopoly of breast reconstruction options.