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The Global Surgical Training Challenge, funded by the Intuitive Foundation and delivered by Challenge Works, aimed to make simulation-based training accessible through low-cost, open-source training modules. The downloadable modules include a self-assessment function that allows surgical practitioners to test their new skills.
The most comprehensive surgical training programs can be expensive and resource-intensive. Many rely on access to cadavers, live animal training models and technology-driven simulation-based training. Without access to such training, resource-constrained settings often have less hands on experience before they are expected to operate on patients.
The Global Surgical Training Challenge addressed the need for lower cost simulation-based training by incentivising the creation of such models.
Self-Assessment
The Challenge aimed to shift the way in which simulation-based training can be delivered. The Challenge focus was self-assessment in a variety of environments. This will give surgical practitioners the ability to learn and develop new skills and test their own skills acquisition. So along with the development of new training models, competitors in the Challenge were asked to create self-assessment frameworks that allow surgical practitioners the ability to test their own skills acquisition outside of a classroom.
Open Source Community Platform
The Challenge created an online community platform with surgical training modules. These open-source, validated modules contain all the know-how to create and build the surgical training models, perform the training and assess skills acquisition.
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