Word: telementor
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...novice doctor 1,000 km or more away. "This is a way of putting someone with more experience into the operating room," says Gardiner. A surgeon could even be in several places at once, watching a bank of monitors showing operations all over the world and being a "telementor" for the less-experienced surgeons. "When a pilot wants to learn how to fly a 747, he doesn't just climb into the cockpit and watch the other pilot and eventually take control," says Bill Colman, assistant professor of sports medicine at the University of California in San Francisco...
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