Trial reportJournal of cataract and refractive surgery2020
Remote corneal suturing wet lab: microsurgical education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Integrating Internship Into Ophthalmology Residency: Assessment of a National Survey and Structured Microsurgical Curriculum.Journal of academic ophthalmology (2017) · 2024Article
- Multiple metrics assessment method for a reliable evaluation of corneal suturing skills.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Remote wet lab training in corneal surgery at LV Prasad Eye Institute in India.Community eye health · 2023Article
- Ophthalmic surgery techniques can be simulated and supervised remotely in the home environment: a proof-of-concept report.Eye (London, England) · 2022Article
- [Online examination course instead of classroom teaching: adaptation of medical student teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic].Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft · 2022Article
- Changes to ophthalmic clinical care during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.Current opinion in ophthalmology · 2021Review
- Resident Skills Assessment in Corneal Suturing: A Comprehensive Review of Currently Proposed Educational Programs and Evaluation Tools.Journal of academic ophthalmology (2017) · 2021Article
- The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Ophthalmology Resident Perceptions of Clinical Experience, Surgical Training, and Personal Life.Journal of academic ophthalmology (2017) · 2021Article
- Reworking protocols of ophthalmic resident surgical training in the COVID-19 era - Experiences of a tertiary care institute in northern India.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2021Article
- Sensor-Embedded Automatic Grasping Forceps for Precise Corneal Suture in Penetrating Keratoplasty.Micromachines · 2021Article
- The impact of distance cataract surgical wet laboratory training on cataract surgical competency of ophthalmology residents.BMC medical education · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeTo study the feasibility and efficacy of a new remote wet lab for microsurgical education using a corneal suturing task.
settingDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
designProspective randomized controlled study.
methodsTen ophthalmology residents were stratified by postgraduate year and randomized to perform a corneal suturing task consisting of placing the 4 cardinal sutures for a penetrating keratoplasty in porcine eyes with or without remote ophthalmology attending feedback. Subsequently, both groups repeated the same task without remote feedback to test whether initial remote feedback affected subsequent performance. Finally, the group without feedback was crossed over to repeat the same corneal suturing task with remote feedback. The effectiveness of the remote wet lab was assessed subjectively by survey and objectively by grading each suture pass.
resultsResident-reported comfort with corneal suturing improved significantly after the remote wet lab for all residents. Residents and attendings rated the remote wet lab as equally or more effective compared with previous in-person wet labs and overall effective in corneal suturing. Attendings rated the remote wet lab as effective in multiple domains of microsurgical education using a modified microsurgical global rating scale. Objective corneal suturing performance was similar for both groups.
conclusionsThe remote wet lab was feasible and effective for training ophthalmology residents in corneal suturing. This represents a new social distancing compliant platform for microsurgical education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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