The field of orthopedics is highly complex and continually evolving, particularly as the fast and furious pace of new surgical devices and technologies accelerates. The importance of highly effective, ...

Practice makes perfect, and a new system is being tested and perfected that enables surgical trainees to obtain cutting-edge instruction in real-time, all through a new artificial intelligence program ...

Mount Sinai researchers have demonstrated the effectiveness of teaching surgical trainees a difficult procedure using artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and an extended-reality headset without ...

Medical innovation has transformed global healthcare over the past decades, leading to longer life expectancy, lower infant mortality, and sharp declines in deaths from preventable diseases. Yet one ...

A randomized study conducted at UCLA to test the difference between VR and traditional surgical training found that medical students trained in VR scored significantly better than traditional methods.

Virtual reality technology is becoming an increasingly popular training surgical training tool, both for medical students as well as veteran surgeons learning to use new medical devices. The most ...

SPRINGFIELD — Baystate Medical Center cleans and prepares more than 5 million surgical instruments a year. It happens in the hospital’s sterile processing labs — a painstaking process that requires a ...