Development of home simulation kits
foam suture
PAD
The controllers in the home simulation kits were designed to mimic the MTMs on the dVSS and were modeled from those described by Cruff [Home simulation kits including the hand controllers, peg transfer board, and spongeThe peg transfer board allowed trainees to practice an exercise that mimicked the Sea Spikes 1 task on the SimNow program. The Sea Spikes 1 task requires the trainee to virtually grasp a series of rings and place them on the color concordant cone [The home simulation kits also included a sponge and suturing needles. These materials allowed the participants to practice needle driving with the hand controllers in a manner intended to mimic the Big Dipper Needle Driving task on SimNow. The Big Dipper Needle Driving task is a virtual suturing exercise on a foam suture pad, in which the trainee must drive the needle through a sequence of holes [