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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/79418, first published .
Doctors using holographic display to examine a knee joint and implant

e-Learning, Distance Education, and Virtual and Augmented Reality in Orthopedic Training: European Cross-Sectional Survey of Trainee Acceptance Guided by the Technology Acceptance Model and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology

e-Learning, Distance Education, and Virtual and Augmented Reality in Orthopedic Training: European Cross-Sectional Survey of Trainee Acceptance Guided by the Technology Acceptance Model and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology

Adam Tibor Schlegl   1, 2 , MD, PhD ;   Marko Ostojić   3, 4 , MD, PhD ;   Ines Unterfrauner   5 , MD ;   Gianluca Ciolli   6, 7 , MD ;   Panayiotis D Megaloikonomos   8 , MD, PhD ;   Vasilios G Igoumenou   9 , MD, PhD ;   Michele Mercurio   10 , MD ;   Thomas Stark   11 , MD ;   David Kordic   12 , MD ;   Martijn Dietvorst   13 , MD, PhD ;   Filipe Lima Santos   14 , MD ;   Viktória Nyakas   1 , MD ;   Luca Tóth   15, 16 , MD, PhD ;   András Komócsi   17 , MD, PhD, DSC ;   Péter Maróti   2, 18 , MD, PhD ;   András Matuz   19, 20 , PhD

1 Department of Orthopaedics, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

2 Medical Skills Education and Innovation Centre, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

3 Traumatology Department, University Hospital Sisters of Mercy, Zagreb, Croatia

4 Osteon Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Clinic, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

5 Department of Orthopedics, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

6 Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic, Rome, Italy

7 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

8 First Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Attikon University General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

9 Department of Spine Surgery, Medius Klinik Nürtingen, Nürtingen, Germany

10 Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, "Renato Dulbecco" University Hospital, Magna Graecia University, Catanzaro, Italy

11 Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery Clinic, University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

12 Department of Orthopaedics, University Clinical Hospital Mostar, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

13 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Trauma, Máxima Medisch Centrum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

14 Serviço de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal

15 Department of Neurosurgery, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

16 Institute for Translational Medicine, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

17 Heart Centre, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

18 3D Printing and Visualization Centre, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

19 Department of Behavioural Sciences, Medical School, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

20 Szentágothai Research Centre, University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary

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