Last July when the consultant surgeons started robotic assisted surgery at @WestHertsNHS, our trainees were concerned that their surgical training would be impacted by consultant robotic learning curves. I asked them to wholeheartedly support the robotics programme, to become invaluable bedside assistants, and help shorten the consultants learning curves. In return, I promised a that once the consultants were trained then ‘training the trainees’ could resume. Over the last 3 months our trainees have had virtual training, been on a technical skills course and started their live cases in colorectal and upper gastrointestinal surgery. The trainees’ experience of training in robotic surgery has been overwhelming positive. Feedback from the robotic systems such as setup times, console times and volumetric hand motion provide objective metrics to measure their performance. From October, we have had the highest retention of trainees and requests to train in our unit Training the future generation of surgeons has always been my passion, and I’m so happy that I am back to doing what I really enjoy 😊 @KhawarHashmi7 @AlexisSudlow @Nazrin_Assaf @BhaminiVadhwana @chanpreetarhi @MrOMoussa @SreeMallappa @ASiTofficial @asgbi @ACPGBI @RCSnews @NHSEngland @CMRSurgical westhertshospitals.nhs.uk/newsandmedia/m…
