Mitra's Lecture

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 This week we had only one lecture that too from Mitra which was indeed very insightful. The use of simulation techniques in surgical training. Its really commendable that people are recognizing the vast application  of simulation in medical pratice which is very valuable. Before medical practises I had only heard the use of this technique in training in avaiation where they tried to train pilots in virtual reality world. I also attended the seminar given by Dr. kahol on his work on this topic and how they have constructed simulation instruments  and technology using cheap and readily available instruments and actaully match to the precision and acuracy of what is available in thousands of dollar. This is very important because not all health care organisations can affoard to provide this quality and costly techniques to train their surgeons especially if I talk about India. There are very few trained suergons for  such a big population. If this technology is available cheaply then there would be a considerable decrease in number of deaths caused due to surgical errors. Being from India and having witnessed the fragile condition of health care system I believe this could really bring a remarkable improvement. The other thing that I liked in Mitra's lecture was the different studies that were conducted to study various aspects ,be it from physcomotor and cognitive skills to fatigue and also various enviornmental conditions like noise to create a real world situation. It also mentioned how surgical simulation training could make the residents perform the surgery quickly and also reducing the number of interoperative errors. I found a published experimental study as hoe virtual reality training can improve surgical results. It can be found in Pubmed by the heading of "Virtual Reality Training Improves Operating Room Performance Results of a  Randomized, Double Blinded Study."

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Ashutosh