Abstract
Virtual reality (VR) will have a major impact on surgical education in the future. It is emerging technologies that can educate students and resident the new surgical procedures. VR might be used to further enhance medical education and assist in the surgery of a variety of diseases. High performance medical image processing is to play an important role in surgical planning and VR simulator can realize quantitative and/or qualitative measurement of competence by using surgical manipulation data. In the present, various surgical educations using virtual reality technology are discussed, along with the technological developments needed to make them possible.
