Abstract
Surgical training has been greatly affected by the challenges of reduced training opportunities, shortened working hours, and financial pressures. There is an increased need for the use of training system in developing psychomotor skills of the surgical trainee for fracture fixation. The training system was developed to simulate dynamic hip screw fixation. 12 orthopaedic senior house officers performed dynamic hip screw fixation before and after the training on training system. The results were assessed based on the scoring system that included the amount of time taken, accuracy of guide wire placement and the number of exposures requested to complete the procedure. The result shows a significant improvement in amount of time taken, accuracy of fixation and the number of exposures after the training on simulator system. This was statistically significant using paired student t-test (p-value <0.05).
Computer navigated training system appears to be a good training tool for young orthopaedic trainees The system has the potential to be used in various other orthopaedic procedures for learning of technical skills aimed at ensuring a smooth escalation in task complexity leading to the better performance of procedures in the operating theatre.
