Stepwise and standardized training for minimally invasive surgery for thoracic surgery trainees

The 7 Pillars of Training Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery: Embracing the Virtual Era

“…25 Review of recorded intraoperative videos allows the opportunity to assess tissue handling and manipulation, to quantify the time spent for specific intraoperative tasks, to analyze challenging or aberrant anatomy, and to subsequently seek focused input with the operative attending surgeon or with a coach. 26 These benefits were demonstrated in a study published by Abbott et al, which found that surgical trainees who received predominantly error-focused feedback, provided as a voiceover comment on their own video recordings, exhibited significantly greater improvement in measured surgical skills when compared with trainees who watched a video of an expert correctly performing the task. 27 Similarly, in the context of fundamental surgical skills, it has been observed that emphasizing error recognition in video feedback is more effective than simple demonstration of a correct performance.…”

“…25 Review of recorded intraoperative videos allows the opportunity to assess tissue handling and manipulation, to quantify the time spent for specific intraoperative tasks, to analyze challenging or aberrant anatomy, and to subsequently seek focused input with the operative attending surgeon or with a coach. 26…”