Robotic Curriculum for Young Surgeons

Recruiting

• Conditions: Robotic Surgery

• Registration Number: NCT05960539
• Lead Sponsor: Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Brief Summary

Robotic training program for unexperienced novice surgeons

Detailed Description

The curricular structure of RoCS bases on five modules: multimodular didactics, standardization, training structure, interdisciplinary workplace and evaluation. The aim is to ensure a basic competence of robotic surgcial skills for unexperienced novice surgeons (residents).

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2020-05-01
• Study First Submitted: 2022-02-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-07-17
• Study First Posted: 2023-07-25
• Status Verified: 2025-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-04-26
• Last Update Posted: 2025-04-30
• Primary Completion: 2026-04-30
• Study Completion: 2026-04-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 500

Inclusion Criteria

• robotic procedures

Exclusion Criteria

• no consent of patients or surgeons

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
patient mortality rate	5 years	during in-hospital stay, 30 and 90 days postoperatively
perioperative morbidity	5 years	complications classified by Clavien-Dindo
basic robotic competence	5 years	Evaluation of the intraoperative performance of residents and specialists by the robotic expert using O-SCORE referring to doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182677805. PMID: 22914526
intraoperative workload	5 years	The questionnaire NASA Task Load Index consists of 6 quesions addressing the individual overall workload. The question of level of procedure's difficulty is used to analyse the overall workload additionally referring to "Lowndes BR, Forsyth KL, Blocker RC, Dean PG, Truty MJ, Heller SF, Blackmon S, Hallbeck MS, Nelson H. NASA-TLX Assessment of Surgeon Workload Variation Across Specialties. Ann Surg. 2020 Apr;271(4):686-692. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000003058. PMID: 30247331."

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
surgical expertise	5 years	analysis of experience for open, laparoscopic and robotic procedures by counting numbers of procedures and surgical practice in years
robotic bedside assistance	5 years	analysis of duration of port placement and docking in minutes
patient characteristics	5 years	age, sex, BMI, preexisting illnesses and diseases
patient laboratory parameters	5 years	pre- and postoperatively: concentration of hemoglobin and tsh, crp value, estimated glomerular filtration rate, concentration of albumin, prothrombin time
practical resident training	5 years	percentage of intraoperative procedural steps performed by the assisting surgeon

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg; 🇩🇪 Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany