Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2009
Abstract
Background - Robotic laparoscopic surgery has revolutionized minimally invasive surgery for the treatment of abdominal pathologies. However, current training techniques rely on subjective evaluation. The authors sought to identify objective measures of robotic surgical performance by comparing novices and experts during three training tasks.
Methods - Five novices (medical students) were trained in three tasks with the da Vinci Surgical System. Five experts trained in advanced laparoscopy also performed the three tasks. Time to task completion (TTC), total distance traveled (D), speed (S), curvature (Ƙ), and relative phase (Φ) were measured.
Results - Before training, TTC, D, and Ƙ were significantly smaller for experts than for novices (p < 0.05), whereas S was significantly larger for experts than for novices before training (p < 0.05). Novices performed significantly better after training, as shown by smaller TTC, D, and Ƙ, and larger S. Novice performance after training approached expert performance.
Conclusion - This study clearly demonstrated the ability of objective kinematic measures to distinguish between novice and expert performance and training effects in the performance of robotic surgical training tasks.
Journal Title
Surgical Endoscopy
Volume
23
Issue
3
First Page
590
Last Page
597
Recommended Citation
Judkins, Timothy N.; Oleynikov, D.; and Stergiou, Nikolaos, "Objective evaluation of expert and novice performance during robotic surgical training tasks" (2009). Journal Articles. 155.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/biomechanicsarticles/155
Comments
he final publication is available at Springer via http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00464-008-9933-9.