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It has been pointed out that robotic surgery is more time-consuming than laparoscopic surgery, and a major challenge for the future is educating young surgeons while maintaining the surgical quality. To solve these problems, we report a role-sharing surgery (RSS) approach in which the surgery is divided into several areas and timetabled, with roles shared by several operators. We performed RSS for 19 standard colorectal cancer surgeries. The surgery was completed within + 28 min of the scheduled operation time, and a beginner robotic surgeon (BRS) was able to perform approximately 66% of the total surgery. There were no statistically significant differences in the short-term outcomes between the RSS and conventional surgery groups. Based on these findings, RSS has the potential to be the best practice for educating BRSs in robotic surgery, the use of which is expected to increase steadily in the future.
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Ushigome, H., Takahashi, H., Harata, S. et al. “Role-sharing surgery”: a new surgical education system that gives beginner surgeons more chances to operate while ensuring the surgical quality of robotic surgery. Surg Today 54, 282–287 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-023-02749-y
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