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Simulation-based training for burr hole surgery instrument recognition

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, May 2016
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Title
Simulation-based training for burr hole surgery instrument recognition
Published in
BMC Medical Education, May 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12909-016-0669-2
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David B. Clarke, Nelofar Kureshi, Murray Hong, Maryam Sadeghi, Ryan C. N. D’Arcy

Abstract

The use of simulation training in postgraduate medical education is an area of rapidly growing popularity and research. This study was designed to assess the impact of simulation training for instrument knowledge and recognition among neurosurgery residents. This was a randomized control trial of first year residents from neurosurgery residency training programs across Canada. Eighteen neurosurgery trainees were recruited to test two simulation-based applications: PeriopSim™ Instrument Trainer and PeriopSim™ for Burr Hole Surgery. The intervention was game-based simulation training for learning neurosurgical instruments and applying this knowledge to identify correct instruments during a simulated burr hole surgery procedure. Participants showed significant overall improvement in total score (p < 0.0005), number of errors (p = 0.019) and time saved (p < 0.0005), over three testing sessions when using the PeriopSim™ Instrument Trainer. Participants demonstrated further performance-trained improvements when using PeriopSim™ Burr Hole Surgery. Training in the recognition and utilization of simulated surgical instruments by neurosurgery residents improved significantly with repetition when using PeriopSim™ Instrument Trainer and PeriopSim™ for Burr Hole Surgery.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 111 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 20%
Student > Bachelor 14 13%
Unspecified 10 9%
Researcher 10 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 8%
Other 25 22%
Unknown 22 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 29%
Social Sciences 15 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 9%
Unspecified 10 9%
Computer Science 4 4%
Other 14 13%
Unknown 26 23%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 472. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 April 2021.
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