July 2006

 Gifted High Schoolers Experience Surgical Simulation Training at ESTAR

On Wednesday, July 5, 2006, The Emory Simulation, Training and Robotics Center (ESTAR) hosted three groups of gifted high school seniors/aspiring surgeons, who toured the facility, were able to sample its state of the art surgical simulator training equipment and had the opportunity to try a "mock" procedure.

ESTAR is the focal point of all simulation work at Emory. Simulation technology and robotics are an alternative to the standard methods used to teach surgical procedures — methods such as practice on animal models or cadavers, observing or assisting a senior surgeon and performing procedures under the supervision of an attending surgeon — and are currently altering how surgeons develop skills and treat patients.

The center has more than $2 million in hardware, including two surgical robots, four virtual reality minimally invasive surgery trainers, an interventional cardiology simulator for coronary catheterization and stent placement, a flexible endoscopy simulator for colonoscopy and upper endoscopy, a urology simulator for endoscopic urologic procedures and eight fully equipped endoscopic surgery imaging systems.

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