I remember seeing a show on Discovery Health last year where they interviewed a CT surgeon who said that computer integrated simulators were getting to the point where his students would put in thousands of hours on them before he ever let them touch a real patient with a knife.
Personally, I would prefer to put serious time on a simulator and then observe about a hundred procedures before ever actually touching a patient. Then again I was just explaining to my wife that I wish I could find a BSN program that spread the core classes out over eight semesters instead of five.
Is this a real possibility anytime soon in the world of anesthesia training? It works well for airline piolets why not health care workers?
