Under forty hours of laboratory training may be sufficient for teaching basic microsurgical skills to novices
Novices demonstrated rapid improvement during a 40-h microsurgical laboratory training course. Even less than 40 h of structured practice might be enough for surgical novices, such as neurosurgery residents, to learn the most basic microsurgical skills prior to assisting in the operating room.
Authors
- Ville Vasankari (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7677-4358)
- Ahmad Hafez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4416-5643)
- A. Yousfi
- Annamaria Auricchio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4186-4476)
- Anni Pohjola (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3583-6145)
- Martin Lehečka (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4088-1116)
- Francesco Calvanese (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0966-2487)
Institutions
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- Helsinki University Hospital (FI)
- Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII (IT)
- Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Acta Neurochirurgica
- Published
- 2025-11-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00701-025-06704-3
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Surgical Simulation and Training
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.01