Assessment of participants 

If you register for this programme as a student at KU Leuven, you will find the assessment regulations here .

Assessment takes places throughout the entire semester, as follows:
PART 1

Assessment e-learning modules:
Delegates taking the eLearning Units will be required to work their way through them sequentially with quantitatively defined performance benchmarks that they must demonstrate before progression. Assessment items that are incorrectly answered by the delegate will be re-taken by the delegate after they have been shown explicitly why their response was incorrect. Thus, the entire course is founded on explicit, agreed, objective, formative feedback to the trainee proximate to their learning efforts.

The TTT delegate will have complete access to all their assessments of the online parts of the program, and they will be shown which answers they did not respond to correctly and why their answer was incorrect. They can repeat the assessment as many times as they like but they must demonstrate the proficiency benchmark before progression. The proficiency benchmarks, which are based on the mean performance of the experienced practitioners on the identical tasks, is 94% for online didactic modules.

 Assessment skills laboratory:
TTT candidates must demonstrate that they can guide a ‘trainee’ to reach the proficiency benchmarks on given training tasks, e.g., suturing, knot tying anastomosis task (completed <40 mins, <10 errors), vessel dissection completed (<20 mins, < 6 errors) and skin dissection completed (<15 mins, < 6 errors). After passing the benchmarks, the candidates are guided during the training by a teacher with a focus on training others.


·  Proficiency verification assessment done by ORSI trainer on Basic skills and BDT.
·  Video based assessments of robotic skills for ORSI pre-scored video-recorded performance from library


 PART 2

 Assessment e-learning modules:
The same as part 1: The TTT delegate will have complete access to all their assessments of the online parts of the program, and they will be shown which answers they did not respond to correctly and why their answer was incorrect. They can repeat the assessment as many times as they like but they must demonstrate the proficiency benchmark before progression. The proficiency benchmarks, which are based on the mean performance of the experienced practitioners on the identical tasks, is 94% for online didactic modules.

 Assessment skills laboratory:
When the TTT delegates progresses to the skills laboratory components of the training the exact same approach will be used. The entire approach to education and training is based on the facilitation of the delegate learning the metrics and being able to apply them for assessment and training in the skills laboratory. For this to work well the TTT delegate must know the metrics before they can help other trainees to learn the surgical tasks. Training in the skills laboratory will be focused on showing and supporting the TTT delegate to give explicit, constructive formative feedback to trainees learning the robotic surgery tasks and procedures. They will also be trained how you assess the performance metrics was an interrater reliability >0.8.

In the skills laboratory index and assessed TTT delegate performances will be video recorded or directly observed and the delegate will scrutinise their performance after the assessment has been completed. They will be shown how their performance could be improved and allowed to rehearse improved performance. The recorded assessments where there is a dispute between two raters will be arbitrated by the TTT course director using the video recording. Both assessors will be present during the arbitration. The TTT course director's decision on the arbitration will be binding. Course units where the TTT delegate does not reach or demonstrate the requisite performance benchmark may be repeated as often as necessary for practicable. To successfully compete the course the TTT delegate must demonstrate the requisite performance benchmark

 Work-based practice: 
The performance of the trainee delegate as an assessor/coach in the context of the hospital or the training center will be evaluated in the same manner as above: performance evaluation will be focused on showing and supporting the TTT delegate to give explicit, constructive formative feedback to trainees learning the robotic surgery tasks and procedures. Also in this context, trainees need to demonstrate that they assess assess the performance metrics with an interrater reliability >0.8.
Performance will be evaluated live or via recorded videos.