Medical Education

Evolution of a Novel Robotic Training Curriculum in a Complex General Surgical Oncology Fellowship.

BACKGROUND: Robotic surgery is increasingly being used for complex oncologic operations, although currently there is no standardized curriculum in place for surgical oncologists. We describe the evolution of a proficiency-based robotic training program implemented for surgical oncology fellows, and demonstrate the outcomes of the program.

Will artificial intelligence solve the human resource crisis in healthcare?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to ease the human resources crisis in healthcare by facilitating diagnostics, decision-making, big data analytics and administration, among others. For this we must first tackle the technological, ethical and legal obstacles.The human resource crisis is widening worldwide, and it is obvious that it is not possible to provide care without workforce. Ho...

Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system-based path planning of 5-degrees-of-freedom spatial manipulator for medical applications.

Over the last few decades, medical-assisted robots have been considered by many researchers, within the research domain of robotics. In this article, ...

Is Robotic Complete Mesocolic Excision Feasible for Transverse Colon Cancer?

Laparoscopic complete mesocolic excision (CME) for transverse colon cancer is technically challenging. Robotic technology has been developed to reduc...

Editorial Comment to Concurrent validation of a robotic simulator curriculum focused on "core" exercises: Does it help overcome baseline skill levels?

Simulation of patient flow in multiple healthcare units using process and data mining techniques for model identification.

INTRODUCTION: An approach to building a hybrid simulation of patient flow is introduced with a combination of data-driven methods for automation of mo...

Machine Learning-Augmented Propensity Score-Adjusted Multilevel Mixed Effects Panel Analysis of Hands-On Cooking and Nutrition Education versus Traditional Curriculum for Medical Students as Preventive Cardiology: Multisite Cohort Study of 3,248 Trainees over 5 Years.

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) annually claims more lives and costs more dollars than any other disease globally amid widening health dispar...

The Society of European Robotic Gynaecological Surgery (SERGS) Pilot Curriculum for robot-assisted gynaecological surgery: authors' reply to a letter to the editor.

Pilot study of Society of European Robotic Gynecological Surgery (SERGS) curriculum for robot-assisted surgery.

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Radiology: A Survey at a Single Radiology Residency Training Program.

PURPOSE: Advances in artificial intelligence applied to diagnostic radiology are predicted to have a major impact on this medical specialty. With the ...

Modelling multi-rotor UAVs swarm deployment using virtual pheromones.

In this work, a swarm behaviour for multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) deployment will be presented. The main contribution of this behaviour ...

Midwifery students' understanding and knowledge of normal birth before 'delivery' of curriculum.

OBJECTIVE: To generate new knowledge that describes and explains the views and understanding, regarding midwifery and normal birth, that newly enrolle...

Neural Network Based Prediction of Conformational Free Energies - A New Route toward Coarse-Grained Simulation Models.

Coarse-grained (CG) simulation models have become very popular tools to study complex molecular systems with great computational efficiency on length ...

Educational effects using a robot patient simulation system for development of clinical attitude.

INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of improving the attitude of dental students towards the use of a full-body patien...

Chaotic genetic algorithm and Adaboost ensemble metamodeling approach for optimum resource planning in emergency departments.

Long length of stay and overcrowding in emergency departments (EDs) are two common problems in the healthcare industry. To decrease the average length...

Method of Improved Fuzzy Contrast Combined Adaptive Threshold in NSCT for Medical Image Enhancement.

Noises and artifacts are introduced to medical images due to acquisition techniques and systems. This interference leads to low contrast and distortio...

Development of an expert system for the simulation model for casting metal substructure of a metal-ceramic crown design.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Nowadays, the integrated CAD/CAE systems are favored solutions for the design of simulation models for casting metal substr...

Abstraction, Sensory-Motor Coordination, and the Reality Gap in Evolutionary Robotics.

One of the major challenges of evolutionary robotics is to transfer robot controllers evolved in simulation to robots in the real world. In this artic...

Hybrid neuro-heuristic methodology for simulation and control of dynamic systems over time interval.

Simulation and positioning are very important aspects of computer aided engineering. To process these two, we can apply traditional methods or intelli...

Neuronify: An Educational Simulator for Neural Circuits.

Educational software (apps) can improve science education by providing an interactive way of learning about complicated topics that are hard to explai...