虚拟现实技术与新型整形外科教学

Virtual Reality and A New Educational Pattern of Plastic Surgery

由于整形外科病种繁杂多样、临床患者特异性较高,其疾病治疗的学习缺乏可重复性。虚拟现实技术可提供三维、无风险的手术环境,使学习者可在正式手术前进行演练操作并尝试独立完成手术。但是,单纯应用虚拟现实技术进行教学仍有不足,该技术无法完全模拟临床复杂肠道、血流动力学等。若能在原本的学习循环中加入新型VR(Virtual reality)模拟技术,可借由模拟的手术环境弥补整形外科教学中存在的学习曲线长且复杂术式难以掌握的缺点,从而形成"Observation, thinking, experience, action and teaching",即"临床观摩、临床问题思考、手术操作演练、独立手术与教学"的新型循环学习模式。该模式有效突破了传统的由课堂到手术台的学习平台期,使整形外科领域能够快速且高质量地培养更多的专业医生。

In the current situation of plastic surgery education, because of the complexity of the diseases and the specificity of the patients, the education of disease treatment lacks reproducibility. Virtual reality technology provides a three-dimensional and riskless operating environment that allows learners to perform exercises before a formal operation and try to operate independently. However, purely apply virtual reality technology is still insufficient. VR technology couldn’t completely modulate the complexity of guts or hemodynamics. Adding VR simulation technology in the traditional learning cycle, can supply the shortcomings of long learning curve and difficulty in grasping complex operative methods by simulating surgical environment, and form a new pattern of circular learning model of “observation, thinking, experience, action and teaching”. This new learning pattern can break through the traditional learning platform from classroom to operation table, so that more professional doctors can be trained quickly and with high quality in plastic surgery field.