Learning Curves, Acquisition, and Retention of Skills Trained with the Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Simulator

Abstract

Intensive, proctored training on the ES3 can train inexperienced persons to perform simulated ESS within a reasonable approximation of the performance of experienced sinus surgeons on the ES3 and the training that an inexperienced person receives on the simulator is not short term but is retained over a period of at least 2 months.