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Surgical training: Attention and proficiency-based performance. How to get there?
In the Innosuisse Flagship project PROFICIENCY we are reshaping the surgical training into proficiency-base performance. Among other...
brigitterohner
12. Jan. 20242 Min. Lesezeit


AR-Enabled Surgical Training - A Step towards PROFICIENCY
A complete AR-based training procedure with synthetic bone models was developed at OR-X, using augmented reality (AR) glasses. This is a...
brigitterohner
19. Dez. 20231 Min. Lesezeit


Paradigm shift in surgical training: The first reality check
Friday, September 22, 2023, in the lecture hall of the Cantonal Hospital of St.Gallen, 30 experts from surgery, engineers of surgical...
brigitterohner
2. Okt. 20231 Min. Lesezeit


Operieren ohne Risiko üben
Chirurginnen und Chirurgen sollen ihren Facharzttitel früher erhalten. Wir sorgen dafür, dass sie ihr Handwerk und aufkommende...
brigitterohner
25. Sept. 20231 Min. Lesezeit


A novel class of networks for capturing dynamic 3D scenes
Our partners at ETH Zurich have addressed the limitations of multi-layer perceptron (MLP) when modeling 3D data. Marko Mihajlovic, Sergey...
brigitterohner
12. Sept. 20231 Min. Lesezeit


Medical Augmented Reality Summer School 2023
Cutting-edge research in Medical Augmented Reality takes place at Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. Participate at the...
brigitterohner
4. Mai 20231 Min. Lesezeit


Comprehensive survey
A comprehensive survey among all continuing education centers in Switzerland At the end of 2022, we conducted an online survey among all...
Stephan Bischofberger, Visceral Surgeon at Kantonsspital St.
14. Apr. 20231 Min. Lesezeit


Collection of high quality motion data
For the validation of the VirtaMed LaparoS Simulator, test rounds by experienced surgeons at the Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen as well as...
Stephan Bischofberger, Visceral Surgeon at Kantonsspital St.
14. März 20231 Min. Lesezeit


PROFICIENCY at Davos Course
The surgical PROFICIENCY project present at the 40th Gastrointestinal Surgery Workshop in Davos 2023 Due to the close link between the...
Stephan Bischofberger, Visceral Surgeon at Kantonsspital St.
1. März 20231 Min. Lesezeit


Breathing life into video pixels
Autonomous virtual humans that move and behave naturally are Siyu Tang’s vision. One area from which the computer scientist draws...
Daniel Meierhans, ETH Zürich
23. Sept. 20221 Min. Lesezeit


Creating the Gran Turismo of Surgery
Meeting healthcare pioneers – learn more about the latest advances in the field of surgical simulation systems, and meet Raimundo Sierra,...
Mathieu Chaffard, Medizintechnik-Enthusiast, Ingenieur, Podc
16. Sept. 20221 Min. Lesezeit


The surgical PROFICIENCY project present at the 39th Gastrointestinal Surgery Workshop in Davos 2022
At the Davos’ annual international training course in open and minimally invasive abdominal surgery there was an enthusiastic atmosphere...
Stephan Bischofberger, Visceral Surgeon at Kantonsspital St.
10. Sept. 20221 Min. Lesezeit


The future of surgical training has started today
The 4-year Innosuisse Flagship funded project PROFICIENCY has been kicked-off today. The entire project team had the opportunity to give...
brigitterohner
19. Mai 20221 Min. Lesezeit


Zukunftsweisende chirurgische Weiterbildung – ein 12 Millionen Projekt startet
Die Schweizerische Agentur für Innovationsförderung des Bundes (Innosuisse) unterstützt das Projekt «PROFICIENCY», an welchem u.a....
Philipp Lutz
17. Mai 20222 Min. Lesezeit
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