Overview

As part of our commitment to developing safe and effective surgical simulations, Fundamental Surgery is actively engaged in validation research projects to ensure the educational validity of our products.  

We strive to ensure that our simulations provide users with not only a high-quality virtual reality and haptically enabled user experience but also truly valuable and effective learning and training opportunities.

Our simulations address predetermined learning objectives to ensure the incremental development of both surgical knowledge and technical skill in surgical procedures for both trainees and consultant (attending level) surgeons.

We focus on assessments that report user achievements at the levels of both surgical objectives and technical skill.  Our dashboards report on key steps as well as metrics such as surgical site gaze time and accuracy of instrument use. These data are used as part of our validation research to inform and guide future product development and improvement.