title: The teleos virtual environment toolkit for simulation-based surgical education.
abstract: In the past, surgical simulations have largely been created through the development of dedicated applications that require considerable programming and computer graphics skills. Advances in simulation-based surgical education have been limited by this dependence on computer graphics programming expertise. To lower barriers to the adoption of simulation-based training, we are developing tools based on Teleos, software technology that allows a wide variety of medical content developers to author surgical training simulations without programming.
authors.affiliation: High Techsplantation, Rockville, MD 20852, USA.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Meglan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Raju
authors.forename: G L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Merril
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Merril
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: S N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Swamy
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Higgins
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003479:Curriculum; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation; D020706:Laparoscopes; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface