ArticleJournal of robotic surgery2023
The Atlantic divide: contrasting surgical robotics training in the USA, UK and Ireland.
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- Technology-enhanced training in basic robotic surgical skills: a systematic review.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Expert consensus on best content of a robotic surgical curriculum: a systematic review.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Pooled it
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- Procedural robotic surgery training: a UK pan-specialty trainee Delphi consensus study.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Article
- A pan-European survey of robotic training for gastrointestinal surgery: European Robotic Surgery Consensus (ERSC) initiative.Surgical endoscopy · 2025Article
- Assessing the feasibility and acceptability of a hands-on surgical robotics workshop for medical students and early-career doctors.Journal of robotic surgery · 2024Article
- Advancing minimally invasive hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery: barriers to adoption and equitable access.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Article
- Pioneering the future of robotic liver surgery.Hepatobiliary surgery and nutrition · 2024Article
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Abstract
The uptake of robotic surgery is rapidly increasing worldwide across surgical specialties. However, there is currently a much higher use of robotic surgery in the United States of America (USA) compared to the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland. Reduced exposure to robotic surgery in training may lead to longer learning curves and worse patient outcomes. We aimed to identify whether any difference exists in exposure to robotic surgery during general surgical training between trainees in the USA, UK and Ireland. Over a 15-week period from September 2021, a survey was distributed through the professional networks of the research team. Participants were USA, UK or Irish trainees who were part of a formal general surgical training curriculum. 116 survey responses were received. US trainees (n = 34) had all had robotic simulator experience, compared to only 37.93% of UK (n = 58) and 75.00% of Irish (n = 24) trainees (p < 0.00001). 91.18% of US trainees had performed 15 or more cases as the console surgeon, compared to only 3.44% of UK and 16.67% of Irish trainees (p < 0.00001). Fifty UK trainees (86.21%) and 22 Irish trainees (91.67%) compared to 12 US trainees (35.29%) do not think they have had adequate robotics training (p < 0.00001). Surgical trainees in the USA have had significantly more exposure to training in robotic surgery than their UK and Irish counterparts.
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