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Touch Surgery Simulations. Access more than 200 of our simulations from 17 different specialties by downloading the free app. Explore our library of surgical procedures:
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- The Benefits of Surgery Simulators
- Free Screen-Based Surgery Simulators
- One More Free Surgery-Related App to Know About
- Are You Using Surgery Simulators?
From trainee surgeons to established surgeons learning a new technique, a surgery simulator is an excellent way to learn in a low-risk environment. Training with simulators reduces accidents. According to the Institute of Medicine, every year 44,000 to 98,000 people die due primarily to medical mistakes. Studieshave shown that students using simula...
1. Touch Surgery
Touch Surgery is a free app available for download in the Google Play and iTunes stores. After choosing your position (attending surgeon, trainee surgeon, etc.), you choose your specialty: ear, nose, and throat, emergency, cardiology, etc. I said I was a trainee specializing in emergency surgery. Then you can choose your lesson. To test, I chose chest tube insertion. Once I downloaded the lesson, the helpful tutorial walked me through how to use it. For the chest tube insertion, first the app...
2. Surgery Squad
Surgery Squad is a free browser-based Adobe® Flash® Player game. Like Touch Surgery, you can choose from a variety of surgeries and the game takes you through each stage of surgery. Surgery Squad screenshot (Source) But whereas Touch Surgery is a tool that can help you practice, Surgery Squad is more like a game you play to review the steps to a surgery. You don't really make any choices or demonstrate any skill in this game. A voiceover tells you what you're going to do next, then a giant ar...
3. Buckingham Virtual Tympanum
Screenshot from the Buckingham Virtual Tympanum app (Source) The Buckingham Virtual Tympanum iPhone app had a prestigious introduction, through a report titled “Interactive iPhone/iPad App for Increased Tympanic Membrane Familiarity"by Sheena Samar, MD et al. It's a free iPhone app that teaches users the anatomical details of the tympanic membrane (TM), an inner-ear structure. First the students review the structure by viewing photos of the TM taken with an operating microscope. Then they ans...
Rapid Recovery is an iPhone app that helpspatients undergoing surgery have a better experience and hospitals to improve their processes. If you recommend that patients download the app right after diagnosis they'll have a chance to learn more about their condition. It also offers patients a checklist of the steps they need to take to prepare for su...
There have never been more ways, or better ways, to learn surgery than there are today. From realistic mannequins to virtual reality, suturing chicken flexor tendons is no longer necessary. Did I miss any great free surgery simulators in this post? If so, let me know in the comments.
- Cathy Reisenwitz
PrecisionOS offers immersive and accurate VR simulations for surgical education and device training. Learn how VR can improve surgical skills, confidence, and mastery with PrecisionOS solutions.
The software is multilingual and combines actual intra-operative surgical footage from the operating theater, interactive animated three-dimensional content, text labels, and voiceover for an immersive learning experience. Access Now. Enhance your cleft surgery skills with Smile Train's Virtual Surgery Simulator.
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Surgical Simulation or virtual surgery refers to a virtual reality simulation of surgical procedures. Surgical Simulation allows the learner to practice basic to complex surgical skills and procedures on a virtual patient, therefore providing a safe risk-free learning environment. Benefits of Surgical Simulation:
