Materials and Methods: We performed a retrospective analysis of 222 urologic robotic
procedures performed by two teams of surgeon-assistant and split the data into two
chronological halves according to date of surgery. We considered that the assistant was
inexperienced in the 1 st half and had become experienced by the 2 nd half, and we
compared mean operative time and blood loss between these two halves of his experience.
Results: We observed that with increasing experience of the assistant, the mean operative …