OBJECTIVE: Fundamental skills testing is now required for certification in general surgery. No model for assessing fundamental endovascular skills exists. Our objective was to develop a model that tests the fundamental endovascular skills and differe...
Robot-assisted surgery continues to grow in popularity worldwide. Competency and training of personnel for robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) is less established compared with other robot-assisted specialties. Major differences between minimally ...
OBJECTIVE: To examine the feasibility and outcomes of video-based peer feedback through social networking to facilitate robotic surgical skill acquisition.
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate, in a simulated suturing task, individual surgeons’ performance using three surgical approaches: open, laparoscopic and robot-assisted. subjects and methods: Six urological surgeons made an in vitro simulated vesico-urethral a...
OBJECTIVE: Endovascular robotics systems, now approved for clinical use in the United States and Europe, are seeing rapid growth in interest. Determining who has sufficient expertise for safe and effective clinical use remains elusive. Our aim was to...
Simulation in healthcare : journal of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare
Feb 1, 2015
INTRODUCTION: Pelvic lymphadenectomy is a key component of the surgical treatment of several gynecologic cancers and involves mastery of complex anatomic relationships. Our aim was to demonstrate that the anatomy relevant to robotic pelvic lymphadene...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2015
Health-related Web sites have become a primary resource to search for information on diseases, diagnoses or treatment options. Various Web sites offer a great variety of such information. However, lay people might have difficulties to assess whether ...
UNLABELLED: PHENOMENON: Virtual reality simulators are the subject of several recent studies of skills training for robot-assisted surgery. Yet no consensus exists regarding what a core skill set comprises or how to measure skill performance. Definin...