Most doctors never forget the paralyzing terror of their first invasive procedure. Dr. Charles Pozner, of Boston's Brigham and Women’s Hospital, recalls the first ...

The applicability of video game skills to modern warfare—in the use of drones, in particular—is well known. But a new study suggests, not surprisingly, that gamers might also have an edge in robotic ...

Medical education company Simbionix is looking to become the industry leader in what could be the next generation of surgical simulation technology: patient-specific simulation. Patient-specific ...

NASHVILLE, TN – In the past, surgery simulation was a crude approximation of what doctors really encounter – and they needed to be close to a teaching hospital to even try it. But surgery simulation ...

One of the world’s first simulators to closely approximate the “touch and feel” of the da Vinci™ robotic surgical system was developed through a collaboration between the Center for Robotic Surgery at ...

Surgeons at one of New York’s largest hospitals will begin prepping for brain surgery with a computer simulation that bills itself as a “flight simulator” for difficult clinical procedures. Surgical ...

FundamentalVR raised $20 million in funding for its mixed approach of powerful graphics, haptic feedbacks, and AI to accelerate surgery training. Reading time 5 minutes If you’ve spent any time paying ...

“I should have switched tools,” the graduate student at the UNLV School of Medicine said, shaking his head as he put down his surgical instrument and stared at a screen with images of the knee he just ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Refractive surgery planning needs a paradigm shift to a more prospective approach. Simulation software designed ...

The National School of Tropical Medicine, the Center for Global Surgery, the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology hold the Essential Surgery Skills ...

Jon LaPook, M.D. is the award-winning chief medical correspondent for CBS News. Since joining CBS News in 2006, LaPook has delivered more than 1,200 reports on a wide variety of breaking news and ...

A unique training simulator for orthopedic open surgery (knee reconstruction with total joint replacement) has been developed by researchers. A unique training simulator for orthopedic open surgery ...