Patent ID: 8784111

Claim:
An apparatus for simulating a medical technique, wherein the apparatus comprises: a housing; pseudo skin, wherein the pseudo skin covers a portion of housing and includes an insertion point; an end effector; a receiver structurally arranged to magnetically couple to the end effector as the end effector passes through the insertion point, wherein: (i) the receiver is structurally arranged to monitor translational movement of the end effector along one axis and rotational movements of the end effector about two axes, wherein all three of the axes intersect within the receiver; and (ii) the receiver, the end effector, and the pseudo skin are dimensioned and structurally arranged so that the simulation begins as the end effector passes through the insertion point, there being substantially no offset between the pseudo skin and a point at which the end effector operatively couples to the receiver such that translational movement and rotational movement of the end effector are monitored substantially immediately upon the end effector passing through the insertion point.