Objective measures for longitudinal assessment of robotic surgery training

• Published in: The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery Vol. 143; no. 3; pp. 528 - 534
• Main Authors: Kumar, Rajesh, Jog, Amod, Vagvolgyi, Balazs, Nguyen, Hiep, Hager, Gregory, Chen, Chi Chiung Grace, Yuh, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Mosby, Inc 01.03.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: Analysis of Variance; Anesthesia. Intensive care medicine. Transfusions. Cell therapy and gene therapy; Automation; Biological and medical sciences; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiothoracic Surgery; Clinical Competence; Cluster Analysis; Education, Medical, Graduate; Humans; Learning Curve; Longitudinal Studies; Medical sciences; Motor Skills; Pneumology; Reproducibility of Results; Robotics - education; Support Vector Machine; Surgery, Computer-Assisted - education; Task Performance and Analysis; Time Factors; United States; United States; API; OSATS; SVM; objective structured assessment of technical skills; support vector machine; application programming interface; Objective; Treatment; Surgery; Anesthesia; Circulatory system; Cardiology; Robotics

Current robotic training approaches lack the criteria for automatically assessing and tracking (over time) technical skills separately from clinical proficiency. We describe the development and validation of a novel automated and objective framework for the assessment of training. We are able to rec...