When I rotated through surgical oncology as a 3rd year medical student, a lot of the cases were robotic. For a 5 hour surgery, the fellow got to drive the robo

When I rotated through surgical oncology as a 3rd year medical student, a lot of the cases were robotic. For a 5 hour surgery, the fellow got to drive the robot for about 90 minutes. He spent the rest of the time watching. The resident made incisions to introduce the robotic instruments and then closed at the end. This took about 15 minutes at the start of the case and and another 15 at the end. She spent the rest of the time standing there and watching. I wasn't even allowed to scrub in - not enough space with the robot docked. I had to stand in the corner of the room for 5 hours watching the surgery on a monitor. And of course the circulating RN wouldn't let me stand in a place with a decent view. I would have had a better learning experience watching a YouTube video of a surgery. What a colossal waste of time for all trainees involved.