Standardized curriculum

Step-by-step to expert performance

Basic skills training

Abstract tasks

For training of basic surgical skills, Eyesi Surgical offers introductory tasks that foster microsurgical motor skills, microscope handling, and spatial orientation inside the eye. The abstract scenarios have been designed to advance the coordination of hand, eye, and foot. Exercises aim at minimizing reaction time and excess movements, as well as proper pivoting at the incision.

Guidance elements

Educational support

Eyesi Surgical features visual and auditive guidance to support beginners in their learning process. During the training, graphical elements support trainees by indicating the optimal rhexis diameter, injection speed, or the distance of the instrument to lens and cornea, for example. Additional text messages point out surgical mistakes.

Performance reliability

Scoring gates

The Eyesi Surgical courseware uses scoring gates to ensure reliability of the performance level; trainees can only advance through assigned courses after having met a required minimum score three times in a row.

Complications management

Learning from mistakes

In the more advanced Eyesi Surgical courses, trainees can practice complications management in a controlled and safe environment. Available training modules feature rescuing an errant rhexis tear, inserting an iris expansion ring in patients with floppy iris syndrome, implanting a capsular tension ring, or performing an anterior vitrectomy.

Complementary online courses

Medical background

Optional online courses on the VRmNet web portal are intertwined with the simulator curriculum and complement the practical simulator training. The courses illustrate anterior segment anatomy, explain the preparatory steps for cataract surgery, and provide detailed information on surgical techniques. Expert videos offer insights from experienced cataract surgeons.