2020 Volume 33 Issue 2 Pages 221-224
Since robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy in 2012 was covered by insurance, robotic surgery has rapidly spread. At the Okayama University Hospital-related facilities, da Vinci has spread rapidly over the past few years, and 13 da Vinci (including Okayama University Hospital) are in operation and 45 surgeons are operating. However, the surgical methods and instruction methods at each facility are not the same. Due to personnel changes in related facilities, surgeons with various backgrounds have become enrolled at Okayama University Hospital, and multiple surgical methods have been disrupted even within the same facility. The robot surgery education of our facility could not cope well with this situation, and the perioperative results tended to deteriorate from around 2015. In order to solve this problem, we tried to overcome this situation by applying the concept of “unifying the surgery contents, improving the reproducibility of the surgery contents and aiming for a short learning curve” cultivated in laparoscopic education.
