SMART Sim™ is a Virtual-Reality Laparoscopic Surgical Trainer for surgeons to learn the skills required in Minimal Invasive Surgery. It allows a surgeon to be trained, tested and specialized in diverse surgical scenarios and procedures developed as a part of this training simulator system. Some of the distinguishing features of this system are:
Pre Exercise Education
- Objective of each exercise is clearly mentioned
- All instructions to perform exercise are explained in detail
- Simulation video is also shown as an aid in performing the exercise
- Videos from real life surgery are included to show real life scenario.
Run-Time Assistance
- Step by step instructions and action based warnings aid in performing exercises.
- User score is shown at runtime to evaluate performance.
Post Exercise Review
- After the completion of each exercise, evaluation metrics are shown which summarize the performance of user.
- Graphical representation of performance is also shown at the end of each exercise