RoboSET - Basic Robotic Simulation Skills Course 2025
Basic Robotic Simulation Skills Course (Face to Face) including Foundations of Robotic Surgery (Online 12 hours)
Delivery method
Face to Face, Online
Duration
2 days
Price
AUD $3975
Speciality
General
Gynaecology
Colorectal
Urology
Foundations
The IMRA NXT RoboSET course is an advanced training program that aims to enhance robotic surgery skills through hands-on practice. Created by and tailored for surgeons, the course offers a comprehensive learning experience, combining theory alongside essential hands-on practice. Hands-on activities move from virtual simulations and into direct practice on a range of robotic platforms using synthetic training models that simulate human tissue responses. Participants will gain practical insights into key robotic features and procedures in a safe, ethical and controlled environment.
This course is RACS approved.
Any SET or pre-SET trainees, Fellows or Consultants.
Prerequisite:
Foundations of Robotic Surgery online course (this module is included in the course registration fee).
https://courses.imracademy.com/offerings/foundations-of-robotic-surgery
- Defining components, features, setup requirements, and troubleshooting of robotic surgical platforms
- Developing the psychomotor skills for safe platform operation
- Demonstration of how robotic platforms are integrated into the operating room
- Optimal use of robotics in clinical practice
- Enhancing team work and non-technical human factors crucial to robotic surgery.
The objectives of this course are for participants to:
- identify the specific robotic platform components, settings, and features required to safely utilise and operate the robotic surgical platform.
- demonstrate the proper robotic platform pre-operative setup, troubleshooting measures, and emergency procedures required to safely operate robotic surgical platforms.
- demonstrate competency in psychomotor skills including Endowrist Manipulation, Camera Navigation, Instrument Clutching, 4th Arm Application, Energy Application, Needle Driving, Surgical Knot Tying, and Suturing.
- demonstrate competency in Camera Navigation, Instrument Insertion, Item Hand-offs & Transfers, Cutting, Retraction, Suctioning, Irrigating, Energy Application, and Hemoclip Application.
- recognise the roles and responsibilities of each robotic surgical team member and competently perform the proper setup of the robotic surgical platform for a surgical procedure.
Professor Anthony Costello
Anthony (Tony) Costello AM MD FRACS FRCSI Hon MB BS is an Australian trained surgeon formerly head of the Department of Urology Royal Melbourne Hospital (1999 – 2020) and remains Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne Department of Surgery. In 2003 he introduced robotic surgery in Australia, and performed the first tele-robotic surgery (radical prostatectomy) at Epworth Hospital, Melbourne. Shortly after this he spent 12 months in dissection of the neurovascular bundle which supplies the erectile tissue of the penis at the anatomy school of the University of Melbourne. Later he published this work in the British Journal of Urology. Since that time he has performed over 2500 surgeries on the da Vinci robot system. Tony has overseen the training of robotic surgeons in Urology at the Royal Melbourne for 15 years (now in excess of 50 graduates) in the art of tele-robotic oncology urologic surgery.
Professor Alexander Heriot
Professor Alexander Heriot is a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and is the Director of Cancer Surgery at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne and Director of the Lower GI Tumour stream at the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre. He qualified from Cambridge University and completed general surgery training in the UK. He has undertaken colorectal fellowships at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, St Mark’s Hospital, London, and the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. He has a focus on minimally invasive surgery for colorectal cancer with a particular interest in the development, application, and teaching of robotic colorectal surgery.
Dr Satish Warrier
Dr Satish Warrier is a Colorectal Surgeon at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Alfred Health and Epworth Healthcare groups. Satish graduated from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in 2002 with MBBS/Bsc (Medical) and qualified as a General Surgeon in Victoria in 2009. Satish is the current chair of the Victorian training Board in General Surgery and as such is extremely committed to surgical education. Satish has a particular interest in Robotic Colorectal and General Surgery and is a high-volume robotic surgeon. He has been an early adopter in Australia for more complex colorectal procedures and has proctored over 10-15 surgeons around Australia. He is an expert in Robotic Right Colectomies, Left Colectomies and Anterior Resections.
Captain Matthew Gray
Captain Matthew Gray graduated as a pilot with the RAAF in 1981. From 1984 until his retirement from the RAAF in 1988, Matthew was a Qualified Flying Instructor specialising in training advanced pilot trainees. Matthew has been a member of numerous safety and learning development committees and introduced Evidence Based Training into the pilot training curriculum in Qantas. He has a deep interest in human factors and training system development that spans different disciplines which involves the interaction of people and complex tasks.
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