3D simulation improves learning of internal carotid artery patterns in medical students

Scenario-based 3D simulation outperformed traditional teaching for learning internal carotid artery patterns in 120 first-year medical students: overall experience score 4.62 vs 3.50 (p<0.001).

• Anatomical understanding and clinical relevance improved from 3.26±0.92 to 4.50±0.78 and from 3.12±0.66 to 4.52±0.64, respectively, in the simulation group.
• The 3D simulators used patient-specific models from CT angiography data, displaying straight, tortuous, kinking, and coiling ICA patterns.

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