Surgical simulation training and education are an exciting technological development with a lot of promise.Virtual reality simulated training can teach vital skills to surgeons before they take patients under the knife. Surgical training is essential for maintaining quality patient outcomes and ensuring surgeons can perform routine and complex procedures. Standard education and training activities are a normal part of a surgeon’s continuing education; but as this training is both time and cost intensive, practitioners searching for robust supplementary models are turning to virtual reality surgical training.

Virtual reality simulated training can teach basic skills to surgeons by using a computer generated environment to improve their efficacy at performing procedures like laparoscopic surgery. These tools are then used to evaluate a surgeon’s competencies for performing specific tasks.…