id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-330728-tul659fr Zaed, Ismail How is COVID-19 going to affect education in neurosurgery? A step toward a new era of educational training 2020-06-11 .txt text/plain 1539 86 54 Many medical offices have either made the 40 transition to telemedicine or greatly reduced their patient volumes to accommodate the widely accepted 41 "social distancing" recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United States COVID-19 has forced us to rapidly adapt, integrate, and use technology to help us survive during these 46 challenging times. Despite being a very promising 110 technology able to influence neurosurgical training, several barriers still need to be defeated, such as the 111 expensiveness of the acquisition, the significant amount of space that many hospitals and programs do not 112 have for its installation and the fact that even the most modern simulators allow the performance of only a 113 few specific procedures. In more recent times, VR technologies started to be used also 124 in surgical fields, allowing an enhanced training of surgical skills. ./cache/cord-330728-tul659fr.txt ./txt/cord-330728-tul659fr.txt