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Endoscopy 2006; 38: 61-64
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-946656
Invited papers
Training and teaching EUS
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

The role of simulators, models, phantoms. Where's the evidence?

K. Matsuda1 , R. H. Hawes2 , A. V. Sahai3 , H. Tajiri4
  • 1Department of Endoscopy, The Jikei University Aoto Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2Digestive Disease Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
  • 3Department of Gastroenterology, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • 4Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Publication Date:
26 June 2006 (online)

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Introduction

Training to a level of competency for EUS is challenging and involves a long learning curve. Exposure to EUS cases may be limited and thus learning tools need to be developed to decrease the number of supervised examinations in patients required to master this. Also, the trainees have to reach a certain skill level in the limited period of EUS fellowship. A few learning tools have been developed to allow a faster learning of EUS and EUS-FNA.

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