“…With regard to question GQ1 ("Which is the target clinical area? "), 22 of the 23 studies concern simulators for training of surgical tasks/procedures (such as neurosurgery [22,42], abdominal surgery [24,26,40,44], orthopedic surgery [23,27,29,41,43], dental surgery [28,35,38], otorhinolaryngological surgery [31], laparoscopic basic tasks [25,33,36], abdominal surgery and basic tasks [37], palpation [39], intravenous injection [34], and central venous catheter insertion [30]); eight of them use the simulation also as an assessment tool [25,33,34,37,40,41,43]. One study reports the use of simulation only for didactive purposes to learn anatomy [32].…”