Comparing the impact of surgical expert versus non-ophthalmologist instructors on virtual-reality surgical performance: A randomized controlled trial.

We found no significant difference in surgical proficiency-level whether the participants were trained by a surgical expert or a non-ophthalmologist instructor for MSICS in a virtual-reality based setting. The findings of this study suggest that near-peer teaching within microsurgical performance potentially could be applied with teaching outcomes comparable to a surgical expert-instructor.