Virtual reality has demonstrated to be the real advantage in surgery’s field due to the significant role it plays in the training surgeons including robotic surgery and virtual surgery.
It is undeniable that the medical domain is one of the largest users of virtual reality, especially in providing the training for the next generation of medical professionals. Virtual reality permits the trainee surgeons to obtain valuable training experience but in a safe environment. They learn skills and techniques without bringing harm to the patients and receive continuous feedbacks as they do so. The validation of VR practices in training operative skills is a turning point in surgical education. The potential exists to make a resident to a higher level of objectively measured ability before they are allowed to perform an operation on a patient.
VR trainers and simulators provide the benefit of allowing as many practices as is needed to reach the training objective. In the near future, surgical trainees can practise whenever they select, with their performance constantly evaluated by the simulator till proficiency in the chosen task is achieved. Additionally, with the right software, system device monitoring of the training profession is also practicable. The surgical education process will soon have the capacity to “train out” the learning curve for technical skills on a simulator, instead of operating on a patient for training purpose.
VR simulators persevere a lot of performance over time, providing an automatic quality guarantee tool for objectively assessing the elevation of an individual’s basic technical skills for the program director. Besides that, the research validates for the role of VR training on the ability of surgical residents to perform an operative procedure with a better and safer performance. Therefore, the introduction of VR training into surgical education programs are getting supported by the researchers.
(Seymour, Gallagher, Roman, O’Brien, Bansal, Andersen ; Satava, 2002)In conclusion, the practices of VR surgical simulation to attain specific objective criteria significantly enhanced the operating room performance. This validation of transfer of training skills from VR to operating room sets the stage for more advanced uses of VR in appraisement, training, lowering mistake, and certification of surgeons. (Seymour et al, 2002)
