Keywords
hernia
Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.For a good surgical outcome, specific knowledge of the anatomy and individual steps of the operation is essential. For this reason, the serious gaming application Touch Surgery™ (TouchSurgery™, Medtronic, London, UK) was developed. Touch Surgery™ (TS) offers a mobile training platform for the simulation of different surgical procedures. Validity evidence for the use of TS in medical education has been collected from multiple specialties. One study demonstrated a correlation between laparoscopic and cognitive skill acquisition between the VR Trainer Lap Mentor™ (LAP Mentor™, 3D Systems, Rock Hill, USA) and the TS application for the laparoscopic cholecystectomy module [Skills acquired during simulation-based laparoscopic training have been shown to be transferable to the operating setting [The influence of TS and VR on practical surgical skills acquisition in a multimodal training setting for laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair has yet to be evaluated. There is also still insufficient data available on the validity of the inguinal hernia module on TS.The aim of the present study was therefore to assess the potential transferability of surgical skills between the laparoscopic hernia module on the serious gaming application TS and the VR trainer Lap Mentor™ III. Additionally, validity evidence using Messick’s framework for the laparoscopic hernia repair module on TS responding to specific questions in the setting of this study was assessed.