Can teenage novel users perform as well as General Surgery residents upon initial exposure to a robotic surgical system simulator?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Akshat J. Mehta; Weston Robison; Christopher K Senkowski; S. Patel; Eric Shaw; T. Senkowski; J. Allen
- Source
- Journal of robotic surgery. 12(1)
- Subject
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Percentile
Adolescent
030232 urology & nephrology
Health Informatics
Task (project management)
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Robotic Surgical Procedures
Surgical technology
medicine
Humans
p-value
Prospective Studies
Set (psychology)
Curriculum
Simulation Training
Simulation
business.industry
General surgery
Significant difference
Internship and Residency
Test (assessment)
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Surgery
Clinical Competence
business
Psychomotor Performance
- Language
- ISSN
- 1863-2491
New techniques in minimally invasive and robotic surgical platforms require staged curricula to insure proficiency. Scant literature exists as to how much simulation should play a role in training those who have skills in advanced surgical technology. The abilities of novel users may help discriminate if surgically experienced users should start at a higher simulation level or if the tasks are too rudimentary. The study’s purpose is to explore the ability of General Surgery residents to gain proficiency on the dVSS as compared to novel users. The hypothesis is that Surgery residents will have increased proficiency in skills acquisition as compared to naive users. Six General Surgery residents at a single institution were compared with six teenagers using metrics measured by the dVSS. Participants were given two 1-h sessions to achieve an MScoreTM in the 90th percentile on each of the five simulations. MScoreTM software compiles a variety of metrics including total time, number of attempts, and high score. Statistical analysis was run using Student’s t test. Significance was set at p value