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Simulation Training Experience in Neurosurgical Training in Europe

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The objective of this chapter is to encapsulate the past, current, and future contribution to neurosurgical training in simulation from a European prospective. This chapter does not touch advances related to outside the European continent .

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Alshafai, N.S., Alduais, W., Son, M. (2018). Simulation Training Experience in Neurosurgical Training in Europe. In: Alaraj, A. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Neurosurgery. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75583-0_22

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