title: A new kind of training for obstetric residents: simulator training.
abstract: This paper presents work resulting from a collaboration between obstetricians and researchers. It shows the benefits from the use of an instrumented childbirth simulator for the training of obstetricians and midwives. This new tool allows to surpass the constraints linked to the traditional training in a childbirth ward. This simulator training is designed to complete the traditional training used in teaching hospitals. Such a training allows residents to acquire a beginning experience before training in a childbirth ward but it also allows instructors to improve the teaching gestures without constraints. A clinical study of the forceps blades placement gesture with several residents who trained on a childbirth simulator is made. The results clearly show the progress in the obstetric gestures of all the residents who have used the simulator.
authors.affiliation: Lab. d'Autom. Ind., INSA de Lyon, Villeurbanne, France. richard.moreau@insa-lyon.fr
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Moreau
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jardin
authors.forename: Minh Tu
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Pham
authors.forename: Tanneguy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Redarce
authors.forename: Osama
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Olaby
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Dupuis
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D018961:Educational Technology; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008880:Midwifery; D009772:Obstetrical Forceps; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000193:education*; D036801:Parturition; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013663:Teaching; D013664:Teaching Materials