LAP MENTOR FEATURES AND BENEFITS
Simulation
As well as excellent tasks, skills and suturing simulation, high fidelity hands-on training of complex complete laparoscopic procedures is a unique benefit of the LAP Mentor, providing a safe environment for trainees to:
- Enhance knowledge of the procedure.
- Practice decision making.
- Improve technical skills and performance.
- Perform critical steps of the procedure.
- Perform errors and practice control of complications.
- Encounter difficult or rare cases, which may otherwise not be encountered during a training period.
- LAP Mentor platforms are available with or without tactile experience when using the surgical tools for enhancing true-to-life feel of tissue resistance during surgery simulation, providing the highest level of hands-on training.
Technical Skills Reporting and Assessment
Comprehensive performance reports provide feedback to both the learner and the educator in order to assess skill level and training success. Optional online access to the system via MentorLearn allows monitoring of the simulator activity and learner’s progress from anywhere, anytime. Reports include:
- Objective metrics based on tools such as OSATS.
- Customizable expert-derived goals established by scientific institutions.
- Learning curve graphs.
Reports may be exported to data files for research purposes.
“Does assessment during virtual surgery predict actual intraoperative performance?” (Okrainec et al, Association for Surgical Education Annual Meeting, 2008, Canada). Learn more about the scientific data which supports the use of the LAP Mentor as a training and assessment tool.
Comprehensive performance reports
Expert-derived goals
Educational Content
Didactic features and educational aids are developed in collaboration with medical educators. Features include:
- 3D anatomical maps.
- Procedural instructions – textual and interactive.
- Videos of real-life procedures.
- Trocar configurations.
- Interactive simulation of procedure specific surgical instruments and the surgical environment.
Training Course Administration
MentorLearn simulator curricula management system allows:
- Design and customize curriculum for learners of all levels and across disciplines.
- Utilize the user and group administration capabilities for the organization of courses
- Use ready-to-use training curriculum and add your own didactic material.
Evidence of Effective Training
The LAP Mentor is being used in ACS accredited training centers and is integrated into training programs or utilized in independent learning, to provide hands-on practice for a single trainee or a team.
As simulators are becoming a key part of surgical education, the scientific community is developing programs to incorporate the LAP Mentor into structured proficiency-based training curricula and to demonstrate its effectiveness in enabling skills acquisition.
The LAP Mentor Proficiency Based VR Training Curriculum “It is possible to define and develop a whole-procedure VR training curriculum for laparoscopic cholecystectomy using structured scientific methodology.” (Darzi et al. British Journal of Surgery 2009; 96: 1086–1093)
The LAP Mentor Advances Clinical Performance
Skills acquired through VR simulators have been shown to be transferable to the operating room. The LAP Mentor is the only laparoscopic virtual reality training simulator that enables training on complete laparoscopic procedures.
“Training on the LAP Mentor procedural simulation is superior to training on basic VR simulators and has been shown to improve performance in the operating room.” (Reznick et al Surgical Education Annual Meeting, 2009)
Learn more about the LAP Mentor validations