Improved Clinical Breast Examination Competencies via Intelligent Simulator Training

Objectives: Clinical Breast Examination (CBE) is performed annually on millions of women but the common practice is antiquated and standards are missing resulting in more advanced cancers than necessary. To improve CBE competencies we created a new self-administered, computer controlled simulator technology that increases detection of small, palpable simulated breast lesions and measures examination skills. Materials and Methods: In operation, every palpation of the simulator's breast models is digitized by sensitive tactile transducers, received by digital signal processors, and analyzed in real time by softwar…