A portable, low-cost practice model for microsurgical skills training.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We describe a portable practice model for acquisition of microsurgical skills using widely available inexpensive tools and materials as a model in learning ophthalmic corneal suturing skills.

Methods

Interested participants without prior microsurgery experience affiliated with the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences with no prior microsurgical experience qualified to participate. Each participant completed written informed consent. We developed a 3-dimensional micro-stellated icosahedron model using microtubules, monofilament fishing line, jewelers' forceps, and a basic laboratory dissection microscope. We tested this model in improving microsurgical skills in a randomized, controlled intervention trial. Following a pre-assessment task of passing a micr

SUBMITTER: Greyner-Almeida HD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9329181 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature