Inside dV-Trainer™

Objective skills assessment is critical in robotic surgery training. To measure a trainee’s level of proficiency, dV-Trainer™ uses the comprehensive metrics and experienced surgeon data of Mimic’s MScore™. It allows administrators to track performance and learning progress over time, personalize user accounts, create and share customized simulation curricula, manage courses, and export data for in-depth analysis.

Featuring data collected from more than 100 experienced surgeons with over 75 robotic cases completed, MScore™ assessment is based on expert mean and standard deviation data (similar to the FLS™ protocol*) to facilitate credentialing and privileging. Users can choose between the new Proficiency Based System and the legacy Classic System; change proficiency baselines; and customize the scoring protocol to fit the needs of their institution.

With the latest version of MScore™, educators can build their own training protocols from more than 40 exercises and assign different curricula to each user. dV-Trainer curricula can be uploaded to MShare, an online portal that is designed to promote collaboration and communication between dV-Trainer institutions and surgeons.

Customizable Training Protocols

• Create personalized training curricula for different trainees
• Customize scoring to emphasize important evaluation metrics
• Export and import curricula, including exercises, completion order, and scoring baselines, to facilitate collaboration and sharing
• Download and use curricula from top institutions via MShare
• Integrate your own surveys or exams to extend training and assessment

Performance Evaluation

• View exercise reports at a glance to quickly identify performance deficiencies
• Comprehensively assess a trainee’s surgical skills through a wide variety of evaluation metrics
• View an array of graphs detailing performance history by individual metrics and exercises
• Give trainees the opportunity to export individual reports in order to verify proficiency
• Sort and export a broad range of performance data for further review and analysis in Excel

Evaluation Metrics

• Time to Completion
• Economy of Motion
• Instrument Collisions
• Number of Drops
• Missed Targets
• Instruments Out of View
• Master Workspace Range
• Blood Loss
• Broken Vessels
• Excessive Instrument Force
• Misapplied Energy
• Overall Score

*Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) is endorsed by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and jointly offered by SAGES and ACS. The SAGES/ACS FLS Program does not endorse this product or company.