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| WebSET project shows first simulator results |
 | At a meeting in Manchester, the WebSET consortium demonstrated the first surgical simulators to a number of surgeons, who will later use the project results to teach surgery procedures to young doctors. One simulator is of a Lumbar Punction, which is widely applicable, and the other one copies a Ventricular Catheterisation procedure used by brain surgeons. The simulators are Virtual Reality environments which can be accessed on any standard PC. This opens the possibility to considerably shorten the time needed to train young doctors to perform new surgery procedures.
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| WebSET simulators to provide surgeons with objective training feedback and standardised procedures |
| Dr. Jyoti, who works as a surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital in London, is one of the clinical end-users in the WebSET project, funded by the European Commission. The WebSET team develops Web-based 3D Standard Educational Tools for surgeons and medical students, among which are simulators for the training of specific medical procedures. At one of the recent working meetings of the consortium, Dr. Jyoti shared her experiences in using some initial prototypes of the WebSET simulators with Virtual Medical Worlds Magazine. Dr. Jyoti explained to VMW about the tasks she is performing as a surgeon, elicited the future role that WebSET can play in the daily clinical routine, and indicated to which extent simulation is able to improve the medical practice.
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| Computer-based courseware familiarises medical students in Athens with laparoscopic procedures |
| At the University of Athens, Dr. Theodoros Diamantis is working as a general surgeon and an expert in laparoscopic procedures in the First Surgical Department. At present, his team is preparing a courseware for the two-year European WebSET project, in which standard educational tools are built to teach surgical skills over the Web by means of 3D computer simulation. The courseware will be applied at the University Hospital of Athens to teach young surgeons and medical students how to establish a new operative setting and how they can put the endoscopic tools safely into the patient's abdomen. This is the first step to start a laparoscopic procedure.
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| Technically gifted clinician at Leeds General Infirmary contributes to ventricular catheterisation simulator |
| Recently, Virtual Medical Worlds Magazine had a talk with Dr. Jan Lalik, who is a clinical research fellow in the Neurosurgical Department at the University of Leeds. Both as clinical and technical contributor, Dr. Lalik is participating in the WebSET project which was launched in May 2000 to design among other computer-based medical tools a set of simulators to train clinical procedures such as lumbar punction and ventricular catheterisation. When the project will be finished in May 2002, junior surgeons and medical students will be able to use the simulators over the Web.
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| WebSET presented at MEDNET 2000 in Brussels, Belgium |
| WebSET partner Genias Benelux has been invited to present the paper "WebSET: Integrated XML and VR components for collaborative medical training on the Web" to the MEDNET 2000 audience. This Fifth World Congress on the Internet In Medicine is taking place at the medical campus of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) in Jette, near Brussels, from November 23 to 26, 2000, under the general theme "Real world medical applications".
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| Virtual multi-user environment to provide surgical training and physiological education via the Web |
| Collaborative, interactive learning and teaching on a standard PC or any workstation platform across the World Wide Web, addressing medical or graduate students, hospitals, schools and higher educational institutions. This is the overall aim of WebSET, a Fifth Framework IST project funded by the European Commission, to design Web-based standard educational tools, specifically for surgical training and physiological education. The consortium of ten partners will develop a cost-effective suite of three-dimensional virtual learning appliances, based on open technology and standards, and produce educational components that will serve as building blocks for applications in a variety of alternative areas. Continuous assessment performed by targeted user groups, has to guarantee that the WebSET environment lives up to the required user needs. The team also plans to provide an e-commerce outlet on the Web to display and sell the objects, generated by the project.
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| WebSET presented at Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 2001 in Newport Beach, California, USA |
| From January 24 to 27, 2001, the ninth annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference offers its participants the latest advances in computer-assisted surgery, data fusion & distribution, diagnostic tools, haptics, imaging, medical education, modelling, simulation, stereoscopic projection, telemedicine, telesurgery, training & performance assessment, and visualisation. As general co-ordinator of the WebSET project, the Manchester Visualization Centre has been invited to present a paper on the project, entitled "Web-based Surgical Educational Tools". Please click the "Full Article" icon to read the abstract.
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| Feature-rich tools and open standards provide added value to e-learning experience |
| Which component technology tools and open standards currently available are the most appropriate to fulfil the aims of WebSET, the project which is building an open distance learning environment on the Internet for surgery simulation training and physiology education? The WebSET team has put to work five technology partners to deliver a technology assessment report. This document presents a survey of the best fitting infrastructure for the integration of WebSET learning content; authoring standards and tools for suitable interacting in 3D; collaboration software that optimally responds to the interaction needs of the end-users; meta-data standards truly relevant for the project; and useful tools for procedure development and authoring.
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| Defining user needs for on-line surgical simulation tools and multi-media learning content for physiology |
| Web-based Standard Educational Tools (WebSET) constitutes a two-year project, which is funded by the European Commission under the 5th Framework Programme, for innovative use of interactive Web technologies to provide low fidelity surgical simulators and educational tools for physiology teaching in schools and higher education. Four end-user partners within the WebSET-consortium have been working on a user requirements report to define the most appropriate applications for implementation into the training packages for surgeon-trainees and into the learning content and material for biology students. The final goal is to generate an open, collaborative multi-user environment across the World Wide Web for surgeons and students to access via a simple browser-enabled PC, anywhere and at anytime, whether supervised by a trainer or not.
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