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Predictive Validity Of A Training Protocol Using A Robotic Surgery Simulator, Patrick Culligan, Emil Gurshumov, Christa Lewis, Jennifer Priestley, Jodie Komar, Charbel Salamon

Jennifer L. Priestley

Background: Robotic surgery simulation may provide a way for surgeons to acquire specific robotic surgical skills without practicing on live patients. Methods: Five robotic surgery experts performed 10 simulator skills to the best of their ability, and thus, established expert benchmarks for all parameters of these skills. A group of credentialed gynecologic surgeons naive to robotics practiced the simulator skills until they were able to perform each one as well as our experts. Within a week of doing so, they completed robotic pig laboratory training, after which they performed supracervical hysterectomies as their first-ever live human robotic surgery. Time, blood …