ENT Low Cost Simulation Training Modules

Our ENT module, its focused for ENT residents; build from 3D printed casts and filled up with DIY FX-Gel (files, manuals and recepies included in the solution) in order to be replicable and built on site and on demand. An audio-visual walkthrough guide of the surgical procedures with a final check list and visual self-assessment also will be included. This would make the  ENT module replaceable, reusable, and inexpensive.

The ENT module will develop dexterity, perception, fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination required for the following surgical procedures: rhino septoplasty cartilage dissection, tracheostomy tube placement, fine needle aspiration biopsy for neck nodules, myringotomy and ventilation tube placement.

Key features: a) it is built on site (DIY) and on demand, b) scalable, c) low cost local and 3D printed materials, d) realistic.

The ENT Modules consists of digital kits that include 3D print files to build (on site) the casts with a personal, institutional or third-party 3D printer. Then the final user fills up the casts with the provided FX-Gel (recipe and tutorial also included). Finally, the user can practice the modules through the walkthrough videos and the self-assessment system (pre and post).

Digital ENT Sim-Kit, includes:

A) Files to 3D print casts

B) Recipe Book of FX-gel (DIY)

C) Video tutorials

D) Surgical Training Videos

E) Visual self-assessment check list.

The ENT Module for residents will develop dexterity, perception, fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination required for the following surgical procedures: rhino septoplasty cartilage dissection, tracheostomy tube placement, fine needle aspiration biopsy for neck nodules, myringotomy and ventilation tube placement.

The Audiovisual guide will provide the user diferent stages of development for each surgical skill (milestones). Once each milestone is completeted the user will compare the expeted result showed on the audiovisual guide and assess himself on the checklist. If the user completed the stage well enough he or she can continue to the next stage and so on to the end.

At the end of each traing the user will be able to dimention de face and neck structures, manage fine instrumental in small cavities and improve the fine motor skills. 

The ENT Module for residents will provide the oportunity to the users to train themselves at home or in dead hours at the hospital, as it is independant and selfguided. 

It will develop dexterity, perception, fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination by repeating the skills showed on each module as many time as needed (Train --> Err --> Improvement).

The solution includes the following surgical procedures: rhino septoplasty cartilage dissection, tracheostomy tube placement, fine needle aspiration biopsy for neck nodules, myringotomy and ventilation tube placement.

• Education Expert: 

Dr Carlos Octavio Aguilar Ortega 

Medicine and Dentistry Schools, Country Director at Universidad del Valle de Mexico (UVM) and Head of the Simulation Center at Universidad Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City.

• Clinical Experts: 

Dr Leon Felipe Garcia Lara, Chairman ENT Department, Central Hospital, Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico City

Dr Carla Castrezana, ENT 3rd Year Resident, Central Hospital, Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico City

• Technical Experts: 

Sonia Esquivel Ochotorena, Simulation Center Coordinator at Universidad del Valle de Mexico (UVM), Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.

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