Effectiveness of simulation-based training for manual small incision cataract surgery among novice surgeons: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: This study was designed to determine the effect of a novel simulation-based training curriculum for scleral tunnel construction in manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) compared with traditional training. In this multicenter, investigator-masked, randomized clinical trial, resident surgeons within 3 months of matriculation with minimal or no prior experience with MSICS were assigned either to simulation-based training, the Experimental Group (EG), or to conventional training, the Control Group (CG). EG residents were trained to perform scleral tunnel construction using a simulation-based curriculum (HelpMeSee Eye Surgery Simulator), while residents in the CG followed institution-specific curriculum before progressing to live surgery. Surgical videos of the first 20 attempts at tun

SUBMITTER: Nair AG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8155014 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature