News & Events: Robotic Surgery Training

Victoria Lyo, M.D., MTM, a recent graduate of the UCSF General Surgery Residency and now a minimally invasive surgery and foregut fellow at OHSU, was the first trainee in the UC system to receive the Robotic Qualification Equivalency Certificate (QEC) from Intuitive Surgical. The development of the UCSF Resident Robotic Curriculum was spearheaded by senior resident Courtney A. Green, M.D., MAEd. working closely with a group of multidisciplinary academic surgeon-educators. The overall goals were to standardize and streamline robotic surgery curricula, to support advances in educational [...]

UCSF general surgery research fellow Courtney A. Green, M.D. was recently interviewed by Daniel Seeger of Surgical Products Magazine about changes in the surgical instruction model heralded by the advent of robotic surgery in the operating room.  It's well understood that robotic-assisted surgical systems are transforming the work that happens in the operating room. But does the increasing prominence of the devices in the healthcare field also require a transformation in how surgical instruction takes place? Courtney Green, MD, a research fellow in the general surgery program at the [...]

The Department of Surgery has launched a new website for its Surgical Skills Center. The program is led by director Edward Kim, M.D., associate director Hueylan Chern, M.D., both associate professors in the Division of General Surgery. The goal of the Center is to maximize learning in the operating rooms by allowing trainees to master basic technical skills and practice operative techniques and principles outside of the operating room. This is accomplished by providing a structured and robust curriculum including inanimate and tissue models that simulate challenges that occur to novices in [...]

Courtney A. Green, M.D., research fellow in the General Surgery Residency program, has been awarded a CSERT (Center for Excellence in Surgical Education, Research and Training) grant from the Association for Surgical Education (ASE) Foundation. Her research project is entitled, "Investigation into the Perceptual Expertise of a Robotic Surgeon: How do we learn to feel what we see?" Surgical education grants are among the most difficult to obtain. Moreover, this grant has historically been awarded to faculty affiliated with academic institutions, underscoring Dr. Green's achievement here as a [...]