Medical education company Simbionix is looking to become the industry leader in what could be the next generation of surgical simulation technology: patient-specific simulation. Patient-specific ...

In recently completed practical tests at the Department of Neurosurgery at Kepler University Hospital, Linz (Austria), a highly advanced brain surgery simulator has received overwhelming approval from ...

Surgeons at one of New York’s largest hospitals will begin prepping for brain surgery with a computer simulation that bills itself as a “flight simulator” for difficult clinical procedures. Surgical ...

Most doctors never forget the paralyzing terror of their first invasive procedure. Dr. Charles Pozner, of Boston's Brigham and Women’s Hospital, recalls the first ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — It's not brain surgery, but for neurosurgeons in training at OHSU and around the country, it looks and feels like the real thing. The brain surgery simulator was developed at OHSU by ...

NASHVILLE, TN – In the past, surgery simulation was a crude approximation of what doctors really encounter – and they needed to be close to a teaching hospital to even try it. But surgery simulation ...

“I should have switched tools,” the graduate student at the UNLV School of Medicine said, shaking his head as he put down his surgical instrument and stared at a screen with images of the knee he just ...

One of the world’s first simulators to closely approximate the “touch and feel” of the da Vinci™ robotic surgical system was developed through a collaboration between the Center for Robotic Surgery at ...

The applicability of video game skills to modern warfare—in the use of drones, in particular—is well known. But a new study suggests, not surprisingly, that gamers might also have an edge in robotic ...

The operative times of third-year residents learning phacoemulsification may be significantly reduced by early and continuous implementation of mandatory virtual simulator surgical training before ...

The National School of Tropical Medicine, the Center for Global Surgery, the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology hold the Essential Surgery Skills ...

MOUNT VERNON - Brian Johns likes to compare the research and development in virtual reality he and his engineering student, Nicholas Bieno, conducted this summer to a batting cage. In the batting cage ...