A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Robotic Simulation Curriculum to Teach Robotic Suturing

"Training with the da Vinci® Skills Simulator to complete a proficiency-based curriculum in 6 simulator exercises relevant to robotic suturing over a 5-week period. We will ask participants in the training group to aim to complete the exercises Camera targeting 1, Camera targeting 2, Suture sponge 1, Suture sponge 2,and Suture sponge 3 to the target score (overall score green checkmark and all component scores to the level of yellow triangle or green checkmark, equivalent to a completed score) on two non-consecutive attempts. For the Suturing skills (SymbionixTM): Horizontal suturing defect task, the scoring is different. For this task, we have elected to ask participants to aim to complete the task ten times,rather than to achieve a certain target score."