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Sood A, Jeong W, Ahlawat R, et al. Robotic surgical skill acquisition: What one needs to know?. J Minim Access Surg. 2015;11(1):10-5doi: 10.4103/0972-9941.147662.
Sood, A., Jeong, W., Ahlawat, R., Campbell, L., Aggarwal, S., Menon, M., & Bhandari, M. (2015). Robotic surgical skill acquisition: What one needs to know?. Journal of minimal access surgery, 11(1), 10-5. https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.147662
Sood, Akshay, et al. "Robotic surgical skill acquisition: What one needs to know?." Journal of minimal access surgery vol. 11,1 (2015): 10-5. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/0972-9941.147662
Sood A, Jeong W, Ahlawat R, Campbell L, Aggarwal S, Menon M, Bhandari M. Robotic surgical skill acquisition: What one needs to know?. J Minim Access Surg. 2015 Jan-Mar;11(1):10-5. doi: 10.4103/0972-9941.147662. PMID: 25598593; PMCID: PMC4290108.
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J Minim Access Surg. 2015 Jan-Mar;11(1):10-5. doi: 10.4103/0972-9941.147662.

Robotic surgical skill acquisition: What one needs to know?.

Journal of minimal access surgery

Akshay Sood, Wooju Jeong, Rajesh Ahlawat, Logan Campbell, Shruti Aggarwal, Mani Menon, Mahendra Bhandari

Affiliations

  1. Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.
  2. Kidney and Urology Institute, Medanta - The Medicity, Gurgaon, India.
  3. Department of Medicine, Metrowest Medical Center, Framingham, MA, USA.

PMID: 25598593 PMCID: PMC4290108 DOI: 10.4103/0972-9941.147662

Abstract

Robotic surgery has been eagerly adopted by patients and surgeons alike in the field of urology, over the last decade. However, there is a lack of standardization in training curricula and accreditation guidelines to ensure surgeon competence and patient safety. Accordingly, in this review, we aim to highlight 'who' needs to learn 'what' and 'how', to become competent in robotic surgery. We demonstrate that both novice and experienced open surgeons require supervision and mentoring during the initial phases of robotic surgery skill acquisition. The experienced open surgeons possess domain knowledge, however, need to acquire technical knowledge under supervision (either in simulated or clinical environment) to successfully transition to robotic surgery, whereas, novice surgeons need to acquire both domain as well as technical knowledge to become competent in robotic surgery. With regard to training curricula, a variety of training programs such as academic fellowships, mini-fellowships, and mentored skill courses exist, and cater to the needs and expectations of postgraduate surgeons adequately. Fellowships provide the most comprehensive training, however, may not be suitable to all surgeon-learners secondary to the long-term time commitment. For these surgeon-learners short-term courses such as the mini-fellowships or mentored skill courses might be more apt. Lastly, with regards to credentialing uniformity in criteria regarding accreditation is lacking but earnest efforts are underway. Currently, accreditation for competence in robotic surgery is institutional specific.

Keywords: Curriculum; robotics; simulation; surgical learning; training

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