Robotic surgical skill acquisition: What one needs to know?

Journal of Minimal Access Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 10-15

  Sood, Akshay ^a   Jeong, Wooju ^a   Ahlawat, Rajesh ^b   Campbell, Logan ^a   Aggarwal, Shruti ^c   Menon, Mani ^a   Bhandari, Mahendra ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEDANTA THE MEDICITY   (India)

^c METROWEST MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; robotics; simulation; surgical learning; training

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; REVIEW; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE; SIMULATION; SKILL; STANDARDIZATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING;

EID: 84920276642     PISSN: 09729941     EISSN: 19983921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-9941.147662     Document Type: Review

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