EDITORIAL article
Front. Surg.
Sec. Neurosurgery
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2025.1671142
This article is part of the Research TopicSurgical Skills and Continuing Medical Education in Neurosurgery: Past, Present and FutureView all 6 articles
Editorial: Surgical Skills and Continuing Medical Education in Neurosurgery: Past, Present and Future
Provisionally accepted
- 1Klinikum Ibbernburen gGmbH, Ibbenbüren, Germany
- 2Universitat Munster, Münster, Germany
- 3Department of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
- 4University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Surgical skill training as well as continuing medical education evolved an unprecedented 41 pace the years (1). similar to those in neurosurgery been 42 also in other surgical partly due to the tremendous technical advances 43 ubiquitous access to artificial intelligence, machine learning and virtual reality (2-4), but also due 44 to the impact of black swan events like the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, modern visualization 45 technologies and alternative means of communication were already available at the end of the 46 last decade, nonetheless they found their way into daily practice much faster from 2020 onwards 47 due to the accelerated adoption of digital technologies in education and clinical practice (5-8). The aim of this
Keywords: simulation, Surgery, Operating theatre, surgical innovation, surgical simulation models, surgical laboratory, Microsurgical laboratory, virtual reality
Received: 22 Jul 2025; Accepted: 31 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Mario Ganau, Department of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
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