Learning, resource implication and performance outcomes of proficiency based progression eLearning and simulation on the acquisition of robotic suturing and knot tying for an anastomosis task.

The project carried out by the candidate is related to the development and implementation of training in robotic surgery. In particular, training in robotic surgery, in the past, has not followed scientific methodologies. The aim of this project is to use a validated and scientific-based scientific methodology, named Proficiency-Based Progression (PBP), for the robotic training of basic skills, in particular suturing and knotting. PBP is applicable to all forms of training, therefore in the project, it will be used to optimize both E-learning (for learning the theoretical basis) and the practical part. Specific metrics will be used to guide the trainees in the training path. Specific benchmarks must be achieved both in the theoretical and the practical part in order to progress to the next step of the path. The benchmark, according to the PBP methodology, is based on the average performance of a group of experts considered by the scientific community to be genuinely good in the specific field considered.