Why the study?
Tools exist to assess surgical skills for other laparoscopic procedures, but no standardized training system or reliable assessment tool has been established for laparoscopic colorectal surgery procedures.
This protocol outlines the development of a standardized assessment tool for laparoscopic colectomy using the Delphi method among expert surgeons in Japan.
Absence of standardized LCS assessment tools warrants caution in trainee evaluation; leaves open development of validated systems.
Introduction: Laparoscopic colorectal surgery (LCS) is considered an advanced minimally invasive procedure. Tools for assessing surgeon's skills in laparoscopic surgery, such as laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair and laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery, have been developed. However, no standardized training system has yet been established for the procedures of LCS. If a reliable assessment tool for trainees in LCS were made available, it would prove that is useful for establishing an educational system for LCS training. Trainee surgeons would then be able to learn the critical steps and important points of LCS procedures using this assessment tool. We therefore launched the “Development of an ASsessment tool for LAparoscopic Colectomy” (ASLAC) project to develop a reliable assessment tool for laparoscopic sigmoidectomy and right hemicolectomy.
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