Virtual Temporal Bone Surgery: Defining and Translating Metrics

Completed

Conditions studied: Focus: Otologic Surgery Training

In brief

The goal of this project is to improve the efficiency of training and assessment of technical skill in surgical treatment of otologic disease. Through previous funding, we have developed an intuitive virtual simulation environment to be used as an adjuvant for teaching temporal bone surgery. Using direct-volume visualization techniques with integrated stereoscopic display, haptic (force) feedback, and aural simulation, we have achieved a straightforward, low-cost learning environment ready for translation into a practical training and assessment tool. This application challenges and seeks to shift current practice in clinical training by translating the simulation environment into a vehicle for curriculum development, technical skills assessment, and dissemination. The intent is to provide more accessible, inexpensive, safe, and deliberate practice with objective and continuous quantitative, objective assessment in the early stages of training.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01493765

Run by

Nationwide Children's Hospital

People needed

96

Starts

2013-07-01

Expected to finish

2016-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-01-31

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Specific knowledge of otologic surgery.

You may not qualify if…

• request not to participate

Where it is running

• UC Irvine — Irvine, California, United States
• Stanford — Palo Alto, California, United States
• Iowa — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
• Henry Ford — Detroit, Michigan, United States
• Mississippi — Jackson, Mississippi, United States
• Albert Einstein — The Bronx, New York, United States
• Duke — Durham, North Carolina, United States
• The Ohio State University — Columbus, Ohio, United States
• UT Southwestern — Dallas, Texas, United States
• Baylor — Houston, Texas, United States

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