Limited access to adequate cancer surgery training is one of the driving forces behind global inequities in surgical cancer care. Affordable virtual reality (VR) surgical training could enhance ...

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Harvard Medical School, Albany Medical Center and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are collaborating to develop a new approach to surgical ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute a $347,000, two-year grant to develop a next-generation simulator to train surgeons to perform minimally invasive ...

Using virtual reality tech described as a fighter-jet flight simulator for the human body, Medtronic hopes to put brain surgeons in the pilot’s seat—giving them patient-specific maps of blood vessels ...

New program to support surgeon training for FDA-authorized Hominis ® Surgical System, the first-ever surgical robot with humanoid-shaped arms ZURICH & TEL AVIV, Israel & FORT LAUDERDALE, ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from VR TKA Surgery Simulator Get ready to learn all the subtleties of the surgery by practicing it in the applied VR TKA training by Prof. Dr. Ertugrul Aksahin, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new simulator will put cataract surgeons-in-training in a virtual operating room and connect them with remote ...

When I was a medical student, I had the opportunity to try an ophthalmic surgery simulator that allowed for the creation of a capsulorrhexis, removal of nuclear fragments, and even a core vitrectomy.

A surgeon accidently kills a patient, undoes the error and starts over again. Can mathematics make such science fiction a reality? The day is rapidly approaching when ...

The operative times of third-year residents learning phacoemulsification may be significantly reduced by early and continuous implementation of mandatory virtual simulator surgical training before ...