Newcastle Hospitals has partnered with Intuitive to launch a programme designed to train the next generation of robotic surgeons.
The first of its kind in the UK – the programme will support surgical trainees from across the North East of England to gain hands-on experience of robotic surgery at the Freeman Hospital’s Newcastle Surgical Training Centre.
More than 30 surgical trainees in urology, colorectal, HPB and upper GI from trusts across the North East are enrolled in the programme designed to create early exposure to robotic surgery sooner in a surgeon’s career.
The da Vinci Academic Surgical Trainee Programme is being run by Newcastle Hospitals in partnership with Intuitive, the pioneers of robotic surgery and makers of the da Vinci surgical systems that are used across the majority of trusts in England.
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Date: 12 June