Ledermann et al. (2019) DOI: 10.5435/JAAOS-D-19-00245

Transfer of Knee Arthroscopic Abilities from the Simulator to the Operating Room

Knee Arthroscopic Skills – From the Simulator to the Operating Room

All trainees showed improvement post-program

AMP surgical skills of orthopaedic residents obtained by training on a low-fidelity knee simulator not only improved simulated proficiency

but also the surgical skills in real-patient scenarios

Surgical simulation programs are conducted with the ultimate aim of transferring the skills acquired to real-life surgery

11 orthopaedic residents3 expert knee surgeons

Baseline assessment

Simulation

APM training program

Final assessment in real patients and simulator

Real patient

92% transfer ratio for the simulator

Final score

Base score

Base score

Final score

1036

1439

To date, no studies report a simulation program for arthroscopic partial meniscectomy (APM)