Three-Dimensional Printed Pediatric Airway Model Improves Novice Learners' Flexible Bronchoscopy Skills With Minimal Direct Teaching From Faculty

Abstract

With 1 hour of practice time, requiring 15 minutes of direct teaching, novice resident bronchoscopists are able to more accurately identify and visualize the five lung lobes and lingula via FB and are able to do so in less time than control residents. This anatomically accurate model could be used to train basic FB skills at a low cost compared with other models.