MP22-18 EFFECTS OF RESIDENCY TRAINING ON PROSTATE BIOPSY EFFICACY: A REVIEW OF PROSTATE BIOPSIES IN A RESIDENT-RUN CLINIC AT AN INNER-CITY HOSPITAL

Abstract

of the objects in endoscopic surgery, there has been no study on the relationship between the skills of robot-assisted surgery and spatial cognitive ability. The aim of our study is to assess the impact of spatial cognitive ability in improving the robot-assisted surgical skills of urological surgeons. METHODS: The participants of this study were 20 students and 24 urological surgeons who had no previous experience either with the Mimic da Vinci Trainer (MdVT) or the main surgeon of robot-assisted surgery. Their robot-assisted surgical skills were assessed by using a program consisting of four different tasks. Their performances were recorded using a built-in scoring algorithm. Theiir spatial cognitive ability was also assessed using a mental rotation test (MRT). The correlation between the MRT scores and those of MdVT were assessed. RESULTS: There were significant correlations between the MRT scores of the students and their MdVT scores for two of the tasks that were more difficult than the others (Task 1; R1⁄40.531, p1⁄40.0148, and Task 2; R1⁄40.459, p1⁄40.0408, Task 3; 0.0245, p1⁄40.3021, and Task 4; R1⁄40.339, p1⁄40.1459). On the other hand, there was no significant correlation between them in all tasks performed by the urological surgeons (Task 1: R1⁄4-0.0690, p1⁄40.7499, Task 2; R1⁄40.080, p1⁄40.7137, Task 3; R1⁄40.0189, p1⁄40.3812, and Task 4; R1⁄4-0.0350, p1⁄40.8710). CONCLUSIONS: The results of the present study indicate that differences in spatial cognitive ability in urologic surgeons have no impact at their acquiring the fundamental skills of robot-assisted surgery, while there were significant correlations between them in students.