Ensuring more opportunity for robotics

Excerpt

I am writing in response to Hall et al.’s brief communication titled “Should every medical student receive exposure to robotic surgery?” [1]. The authors are strong proponents of medical student exposure to robotics believing that “integrating (robotic) education at a student level is the perfect opportunity to enlighten the next generation of clinicians and surgeons” [1]. I think this idea should be taken a step further: robotics should be an essential part of their overall medical education, not just their surgical education as we do not know which student’s experience with robotics may be the launching pad for virtuosity either in robotics and/or medicine as a result. …