Learning Curves in Establishing a New Minimally Invasive Pancreas Program.

Journal: The American surgeon
Published Date: Jun 6, 2023

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy (rPD) is a complex operation with a reported learning curve of 80 cases. Two recent graduates of a formal robotic complex general surgical oncology training program have been performing rPD at our institution since 2016, which had no previous institutional experience with rPD.

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  • Joon Y Park
    David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA; David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Surgery, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Sarah Mirzaie
    Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Aly Premji
    Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Youngji Seo
    Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Michael Mederos
    Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Joe Hines
    Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Timothy Donahue
    Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
  • James Tomlinson
    Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  • Jonathan King
    1 Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Mark Girgis
    Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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