Technology Enhanced Surgery Education Environments: Requirements and System Models

Abstract

Minimal invasive surgery (MIS), performed by techniques such as laparoscopic and endoscopic approaches are becoming very popular because of their minimum damage on patient and improved success rates. Since those operations have some limited access to the operational area, the surgeons who are expected to perform those operations need some specific skills and they have to go through an exhaustive training process. Today, MIS education and training programs are faced with serious problems. In this study first problems of those programs are be discussed. Then the technological solutions to address those problems are discussed and analyzed. This study aims to help the educators in this field to address right technology to improve their educational environments and the technical people to better address problems of those educational environments and develop enhanced and integrated solutions specific to this field.