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The Institute for Surgical Excellence: Its Role in Standardization of Training and Credentialing in Robotic Surgery

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The Institute for Surgical Excellence is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to improving surgical care and patient outcomes for emerging technologies. It is the only cross-specialty organization that has a strategic plan to create and manage a Full-Cycle Model for Education, Training, Assessment, and Surveillance for robotic-assisted surgical (RAS) procedures. The components of the model include the development and validation of expert consensus-driven outcome measures and metrics, comprehensive curricula with supporting simulations, train-the-trainer standards, credentialing standards, and long-term surveillance through a RAS registry.

Each component of the full-cycle model was addressed through a series of consensus conferences to develop new standards for RAS. The eleven consensus conferences included the following:

  1. 1.

    Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery (FRS) Outcome Measures Consensus Conference

  2. 2.

    FRS Curriculum Planning Consensus Conference

  3. 3.

    FRS Curriculum and Simulation Development Consensus Conference

  4. 4.

    Consensus Conference for the FRS Curriculum Effectiveness Evaluation Study Design

  5. 5.

    Robotic Training Network (RTN) Consensus Conference

  6. 6.

    Specialty Specific Curricula Consensus Conferences—Gynecology

  7. 7.

    Specialty Specific Curricula Consensus Conferences—Thoracic Surgery

  8. 8.

    Train-the-Trainer Consensus Conference—Curriculum Development

  9. 9.

    Train-the-Trainer Consensus Conference—Teaching to Train and Assess Regarding Errors

  10. 10.

    Credentialing Consensus Conference

  11. 11.

    Registry Consensus Conference

Each consensus conference will be described in this chapter.

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  1. Institute of Surgical Excellence, CaseNetwork, Newtown Square, PA, USA

    Jeffrey S. Levy

  2. Department of Gynecologic Oncology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Martin Martino

  3. Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery Program, Lehigh Valley Cancer Institute, Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA, USA

    Martin Martino

  4. Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Dimitrios Stefanidis

  5. Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    John Porterfield Jr

  6. Department of Urology, University College London Hospital, London, UK

    Justin Collins

  7. Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Richard Feins

  8. Department of Urology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA

    Ahmed Ghazi

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Advanced Thoracic Surgery, Global Robotics Institute Advent Health Celebration, Celebration, FL, USA

    Farid Gharagozloo

  2. Global Robotics Institute, Advent Health Celebration, Celebration, FL, USA

    Vipul R. Patel

  3. Department of Surgery, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti

  4. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Three Crosses Regional Hospital, Las Cruces, NM, USA

    Robert Poston

  5. Department of Surgery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Rainer Gruessner

  6. Department of Surgery, Wellington Regional Medical Center, Wellington, FL, USA

    Mark Meyer

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Levy, J.S. et al. (2021). The Institute for Surgical Excellence: Its Role in Standardization of Training and Credentialing in Robotic Surgery. In: Gharagozloo, F., Patel, V.R., Giulianotti, P.C., Poston, R., Gruessner, R., Meyer, M. (eds) Robotic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53594-0_11

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