Happy to announce that I have completed my Fellowship in Robotic Surgery, conferred by the Association of Robotic and Innovative Surgeons (ARIS) and Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 🎓 👨‍🎓 👨‍⚕️.

Incredibly grateful that I can go back to being a student after 30 years of being a surgeon, doing advanced, open and laparoscopic procedures. To learn something future-forward like robotic surgery has been interesting, and it will provide a great amount of benefit for patients, compared to open and laparoscopic surgery.

I believe robotics is here to stay for good, and for the better – it is a great technological leap, also gives humanity multiple options, accuracy, higher chance of success, less medical complications, it’s more ergonomic for surgeons, and overall offers greater probability that the procedure and recovery is smoother, faster, with shorter hospital stay.

The entire fellowship involved:

➡️ 1 year of study
➡️ 25 lectures, with 10 specialised robotics surgery lectures
➡️ 12 x 1/month webinars with panel discussion on interesting topics, controversies and case series in robotic surgery
➡️ Multiple hands-on cadaver workshops
➡️ 9 months of clinical observation and assistance of robotic surgeries with a mentor
➡️ Involvement in multiple annual congress days and many other meaningful events, panels, discussions, that supported my training

We were assessed through our clinical performance, a dissertation, theory examination, OSCE assessment, and viva.

It’s been a great honour to be awarded the Fellowship, and I really look forward to the avenues in surgery that it will open up in India, and for all my patients.

I’d urge any and all patients to feel free to speak with me about robotic surgery options.