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Surgical Education and Learning Theory
No full textSurgical education has evolved over the last three decades due to changes in surgery
starting with the adoption of minimally invasive and image-guided surgical techniques.
It has therefore driven change in the traditional approach to the teaching and in
the acquisition of new surgical skills, both technical and non-technical. Always considering
the educational theory principles, the simulation will undoubtedly play a crucial
role and will become a basic step for assessing certain skill competencies before progression
to real-life scenarios. It will enhance the development of skills, knowledge,
and attitudes generating a new generation of successful medical trainers and learners
Basic Skills Training in Robotic Surgery: Dry and Wet-Lab Models and Their Application in Robotic Training Pathways
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Technical Advances in Robotic Renal Surgery
No full textSurgical techniques for robotic renal surgery are driven by the aims of simplifying the most challenging surgical steps, maximizing functional and oncologic outcomes, and consistently pushing the envelope on possibilities. Over the past several years, not only we have seen an emergence in innovation in surgical technique and robotic platforms, we also note an integration of a variety of imaging techniques. Thanks to advances in imaging technology and surgical methods, surgeons can now contemplate partial nephrectomy in patients who were previously thought to be impossible candidates for nephron-sparing surgery. Recent studies have concentrated on integrating the architecture of renal masses and their vasculature to improve surgical planning, combining imaging and hilar clamping techniques and introducing a single-port robotic platform. The innovations introduced in the field of robotic renal surgery have shown substantial improvements in preoperative planning and intraoperative guidance. Moreover, new surgical platforms have recently appeared on the market showing encouraging results. With developing robotic expertise and new implementations, it is plausible that practicing urologists will continue to push the boundaries in nephron preservation and complication-free recovery
Robot-Assisted Adrenalectomy Workup and Management
No full textRobot-assisted approach for adrenalectomy is feasible and safe. Although adrenalectomy is a purely extirpative procedure requiring no further reconstruction, wristed instruments, increased precision, and magnified three-dimensional vision may aid in dissection of large and small vessels and more precise delineation of the tumor lesion during both radical and partial adrenalectomies. These advantages may allow more surgeons, including those with limited laparoscopic experience, to offer their patients an effective and minimally invasive approach to adrenalectomy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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