Researchers in the Rensselaer Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine lab. (IMAGE)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Researchers in the Rensselaer Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine lab.

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Colorectal surgery is a hands-on activity, but in recent years the effectiveness of traditional assessment methods in evaluating surgeons' technical skills has been called into question. A team of collaborators with ties to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is responding by pioneering the use of virtual reality technologies to train and objectively evaluate colorectal surgeons without putting any patients at risk.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Mark McCarty

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