Symposium: Robotic surgery in urology: Hype, hope, and reality - Modern Medicine

Community urologists who want to learn this must have an adequate volume of cases, at least 20 prostatectomies a year, and it probably will take 20 or 30 procedures before they are comfortable. For someone doing less than 20 cases a year, it doesn't make much sense. You have to do this procedure with some regularity to keep up your skills.
Pruthi: I hesitate to suggest a number because of the different issues we have mentioned. In the Henry Ford experience, when they looked at complications, the learning curve was 200 cases.2 At Vanderbilt, the surgeon-reported learning curve was 250 cases.2