Creation of a video library as a learning tool in robot-assisted laparoscopic urology surgery

Abstract

The proper learning of surgical techniques in the field of robot-assisted surgery allows to reduce complications and improve surgical time, for which a review of the training of new professionals is necessary, to acquire cognitive skills, motor skills and judgment, necessary for a correct performance, being the video training a useful educational tool, of important contribution in the surgical learning. The objective is to promote the learning and development of surgical skills in robotic urological surgery, through a digital video library. A qualitative and descriptive study was carried out, in which the information was collected longitudinally, with a population and it was shown by the urological patients operated by da Vinci robot-assisted laparoscopic urological surgery, at the Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad de Caracas, Venezuela, in the period from March to September 2021, through a non-probabilistic demonstration for convenience and discretion. With the Filmora video editing tool, a video library was obtained that includes six (06) edited instructional videos in mp4 format, with the most frequent robotic-assisted urological precedents (conventional and modified radical prostatectomy (minimal apical dissection), prostatectomy simple, pyeloplasty, radical nephrectomy and nephrectomy). The video library is a flexible, educational and profitable resource for the partial development of cognitive skills in novice surgeons, strengthening learning and facilitating the understanding of robotic-assisted surgical processes.