الفهرس 
A prospective study of the benefits of simulators in improving obstetric vaginal examination skills
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Abstract
Vaginal delivery is considered the most common mode of delivery nowadays. Vaginal examination is considered a very important step to assess the progress of this process. It is one of the most essential skills should be learnt by every general practitioner during their internship period.
Unfortunately, there are difficulties that hinders the good practice of these skills in our community as religious and sociocultural beliefs. So, instead of performing vaginal examination on real patients, simulation training is adopted in many regions in order to respect the patients’ confidentiality and achieve the safety of both patients and practitioners.
In our study, we tried to investigate the effectiveness of simulator training in performing vaginal examination and compare its efficacy against real patients.
Methods:
39 house officers spending their internship training at Cairo University hospital of obstetric sand gynecology who didn’t perform vaginal examination of real patients before were eligible to participate in the study.
They all attended three orientation lectures each of which lasted for 1 hour. Each one included principal roles for how to perform an obstetric vaginal examination assessing the cervical dilatation, position and effacement and featal presenting part and its current position