I get the surgeons news journal from the Royal College of Surgeons every month and always skim through and sometimes read some of the articles as well.
In the December issue though was an article discussing whether all medical surgical trainees should receive a module on robotic surgery in their training pathway.
And so, we have now reached this point where I felt that previously I was ahead and now I feel I’m so far behind, when the robots are coming.
I was having a conversation with one of my patients who is a consultant anaesthetist who works in intensive care and I was chatting to them about the prospects of robotic surgery and he nonchalantly explained to me that there are already three robots at city hospital in Nottingham working 5 days a week.
He explained that prostate surgery used to mean a 2 week stay in hospital and with the intervention of the robots it’s now an overnight for many patients.
I am so far behind.
If you’re qualifying in dentistry now or if you’re trying to develop some new skills or talents, you best get moving because the world is changing more rapidly than you can possibly imagine.
Artificial intelligence will be through our case notes and our marketing any minute now (if it isn’t through yours already), CBCT reporting will be AI powered and digital surgery also and soon enough with haptics and augmented reality we'll be close to the robots for implant surgery and who will be going first?
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