PROFICIENCY-BASED VATS TRAINING

Master VATS skills through deliberate practice.

Structured exercises, criterion-referenced assessment, and expert feedback guide progress from fundamental skills toward proficiency.

How it works

Practice. Record. Assess. Improve.

Every session has a defined purpose, observable criteria, and a clear next step.

01

Practice

Train one defined technical skill.

02

Record

Capture a standardised performance.

03

Expert Review

Get objective assessment and expert feedback.

04

Improve

Use feedback to focus the next session.

Assessment & feedback

Know exactly what to improve next.

Surgical Deliberate Practice Assessment (sDPA) uses predefined, exercise-specific criteria to make technical feedback concrete and actionable.

Train independently. Expert assessment and structured feedback are delivered asynchronously as structured PDF or video reports.

Criterion-referenced learnVATS assessment with a trainee frame, reference frame, and observable criteria
01 Criterion-referenced assessment

Longitudinal progress

See your progress. Train to proficiency.

Follow performance across sessions, identify persistent weaknesses, and progress toward a predefined proficiency benchmark rather than a fixed number of repetitions.

Example trainee learning trajectory

Evidence-Based Foundations

Built on deliberate practice. Informed by evidence.

learnVATS combines focused repetition, criterion-referenced assessment, structured feedback, and longitudinal progress tracking within a proficiency-based training approach.
  • Deliberate practice

    Ericsson et al.

    Psychological Review, 1993

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  • Proficiency-based training

    Gallagher et al.

    Annals of Surgery, 2005

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  • Surgical deliberate practice

    Wickramasinghe & Vincent

    BMC Medical Education, 2025

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