Sensory and Motor Skill Testing in Neurosurgery Applicants: A Pilot Study Using a Virtual Reality Haptic Neurosurgical Simulator

• Published in: Neurosurgery Vol. 73 Suppl 1; no. supplement 1; pp. S116 - S121
• Main Authors: Roitberg, Ben, Banerjee, Pat, Luciano, Cristian, Matulyauskas, Martin, Rizzi, Silvio, Kania, Patrick, Gasco, Jaime
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Copyright by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons 01.10.2013

BACKGROUND:Manual skill is important for surgeons, but current methods to evaluate sensory-motor skills in applicants to a surgical residency are limited. OBJECTIVE:To develop a method of testing sensory-motor skill using objective and reproducible virtual reality simulation. METHODS:We designed a s...