Developing a Robotic General Surgery Training Curriculum: Identifying Key Elements Through a Delphi Process.

Journal: Journal of surgical education
Published Date: Aug 26, 2021

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: A national robotic surgery curriculum is still developing for general surgery residents as robotic surgery becomes increasingly accessible. One general surgery residency program utilized a Delphi process to optimize a robotic surgery curriculum and to determine key factors that might affect robotic proficiency and intraoperative independence.

Authors

  • Ingrid S Schmiederer
    Department of Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California. Electronic address: ins9031@nyp.org.
  • Arturo Torices-Dardon
    Department of Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Queens, Flushing, New York.
  • Dana M Ferrari-Light
    Department of Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Queens, Flushing, New York.
  • Elia Charbel Abboud
    Department of Surgery, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
  • Vincenzo Villani
    Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
  • James N Lau
    Department of Surgery, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois.
  • Christopher M Foglia
    Department of Surgery, New York-Presbyterian Queens, Flushing, New York.

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