FIGURE 1. LapMentor™ 30° camera navigation exercise and corresponding animate operating room laparoscopic exercise. The LapMentor™ screen shot for the camera navigation exercise demonstrates the requirement for the subject to use the 30° optics of the laparoscope to identify the red balls within the containers. The trainee is required to manipulate the scope until the green square is centered on the red ball. The square will then turn red and the ball will disappear. The subject must then find the next red ball. A, The in vivo operative assessment similarly required subjects to optimally use a 30° laparoscope to identify 5 foam “dots” on the abdominal wall of the pig. B, This image shows the appearance of one of these “dots.”