Hyperreal Organlike Models for Enhanced Surgical-Training during and post-COVID-19 (HOMES-Training)

由于目前的COVID-19大流行，外科培训的提供受到严重干扰，大多数培训活动（在医院、医学院、培训中心和医疗器械公司）要么推迟，要么取消。这将对长期医疗保健服务产生深远影响。OrganLike正在开发“超逼真”的人体器官和血管合成模型，并与爱丁堡皇家外科学院（RCSEd）和NHS Highland合作，将这项技术用于常规外科训练。这些模型是人类尸体或动物组织的另一种选择，几个世纪以来，人类尸体或动物组织一直是训练外科医生的常规手段。培训始终在医院、医学院、医疗器械公司的设施中进行——所有这些设施都有储存和使用人体组织和身体部位的必要设施和授权。该项目将加速利用合成模型对外科医生进行远程培训的发展，这种模型不需要任何处理人体组织所需的复杂设施。实物材料可以邮寄给世界上任何地方的学员，而培训的教学部分则在线提供。由于物理材料是标准化的，它们可以很容易地与现有的增强现实技术相结合，以提高培训体验。在该项目中，在英国接受RCSEd培训的外科医生将对材料进行评估，肯尼亚、马拉维和津巴布韦的实习外科医生也将对材料进行评估。该项目将展示OrganLike的超现实合成模型在外科训练中的核心作用。*外科医生远程培训的“可行性”，*引入以前为其他培训应用（如AR）开发的增强培训技术的能力，*增加国际培训的能力。该项目是Covid-19大流行如何导致新技术加速采用的一个非常清楚的例子——在这种情况下，自现代外科手术发展以来几乎没有改变的教学方法。对传统培训的需求将继续存在，但这项技术将减少前往集中设施的需求，使低收入和中等收入国家更容易获得培训，并为未来更高级的培训提供平台。它还将使RCSEd继续走在外科发展的前沿，这是它自1505年成立以来一直在做的。

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, the provision of surgical training has been severely disrupted with most training activities (in hospitals, medical schools, training centres and medical device companies) either postponed or cancelled. This will have a profound effect on long term healthcare provision.OrganLike is developing "hyper-realistic" synthetic models of human organs and blood vessels and working with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) and NHS Highland to use this technology in routine surgical training. These models are an alternative to using human cadavers or animal tissues - which has been the normal means for training surgeons for centuries. Training has been invariably conducted in hospitals, medical schools, facilities of medical device companies - all of which have the necessary facilities and authorisation for the storage and use of human tissues and body parts.The project will accelerate the development of remote training of surgeons using synthetic models which do not require any of the complex facilities needed to work with human tissue. The physical materials can be delivered by post to the trainee wherever they are in the world, while the teaching component of the training delivered on-line. As the physical materials are standardised, they can be readily integrated with existing Augmented Reality technologies to enhance the training experience.In the project, materials will be evaluated by surgeons training with RCSEd in the UK and also evaluated by trainee surgeons in Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe.The project will demonstrate* the central role for OrganLike's hyper-realistic synthetic models from surgical training.* the "doability" of remote training for surgeons,* the capacity to introduce enhanced training techniques previously developed for other training application, such as AR,* the capacity to increase training internationally.The project represents a very clear example of how the Covid-19 pandemic can lead to accelerated adoption of new techniques -- in this case for a teaching approach which has changed little since the development of modern surgery. The need for traditional training will remain, but this technology will reduce the need for travel to centralised facilities, make training more accessible in Low and Middle Income Countries and provide the platform for more advanced training in the future.It will also enable the RCSEd to continue to be at the forefront of surgical development, which it has been doing since it was founded in 1505\.