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Streamlined Robotic Training Cuts Time, Maintains Mastery

A refined robotic surgical training curriculum enhances skill acquisition while significantly lowering training time.

  • Mastery rates jumped from 83% to 100% with the new curriculum.
  • Mean console training time decreased from 7 hours to 5 hours and 42 minutes (p=0.005).

This efficient approach offers general surgery residents a more effective pathway to proficiency.

  • Median VR drill scores improved dramatically, with test scores up by over 400 points across both curricula.

Journal Article by Nunez-Rocha RE, Castillo-Flores S (…) Polanco PM et 7 al. in Surg Endosc

© 2025. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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