April 16, 2007
SUMMIT at Stanford Community Day

Over 60 people of (almost) all ages took SUMMIT's challenge Are you cut out to be a surgeon? yesterday, April 15 at Stanfords's Community Day. Many others looked on while their daughter, son, parent, friend, etc., got a first-hand look at 21st century medical education.

SUMMIT researchers led the enthusiastic audience in a hands-on demonstration of how surgeons can learn many of the basic skills needed for minimally invasive surgey. The demonstration featured LapSim, a product designed by SUMMIT team members in conjunction with Surgical Science, a Swedish company that provides tools for training medical professionals.

Almost 60 future surgeons used the interactive 3-D interface, learning surgical tasks tasks including coordination of laparoscopic tools, grasping, cutting, clipping, and suction. A few even tried the gall bladder surgery scenario on the virtual patient. Several future medical students came back multiple times, asking for tougher challenges.

This is one of the many demonstrations that SUMMIT provides to medical students, professional surgeons, and the general public about information technologies and their application to medical education.

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