Objectives: The objectives of this review are to summarize the current training modalities
and assessment tools used in urological robotic surgery and to propose principles to guide …

Abstract The University of Illinois purchased their first da Vinci System in September of 2002.
Within the first calendar year, their program began orienting trainees to the da Vinci …

The field of computer assisted minimally invasive surgery is rapidly expanding worldwide,
including in India. With more hospitals in India contemplating the acquisition of a robotic …

Objective Robotic surgical skill development is central to training in urology as well as in
other surgical disciplines. Here, we describe a pilot study assessing the relationships …

Introduction: Robotic surgery is associated with a learning curve unique to each trainee.
Knowledge about a trainee's baseline skill and learning curve would facilitate the …

The objective is to identify whether trainees demonstrate improvement in a standardized
knot-tying task as assessed by Global Evaluative Assessment of Robotic Skills (GEARS) …

Introduction There is significant growth in the use of the robotic surgery platform in the
general surgery community. Current pre-requisites for robot surgery training include …

The place of robotic hysterectomy in the gynecologic surgical armamentarium is still
evolving. Although recent studies highlight the comparative outcomes of robotic and …

Deep Learning (DL) has achieved automatic and objective assessment of surgical skills.
However, the applicability of DL models is often hampered by their substantial data …

Introduction As urology training shifts toward competency-based frameworks, the need for
tools for high stakes assessment of trainees is crucial. Validated assessment metrics are …