Table 4.

Comfort in minimally invasive surgery hepato-pancreato-biliary (MIS HPB) surgery by training track

	On a scale of 1–10 (1-most uncomfortable to 10 - most comfortable)
	How comfortable are you at performing a MIS Whipple	How comfortable are you at performing a minimally invasive hemi-liver resection
Specialty Track	n (%) of those that were comfortable (a ‘6’ or more on the comfort scale) within each specialty track
HPB surgery	3/38 (7.9)	13/36 (36.1)
HPB/Complex GI	9/28 (32.1)	9/29 (31.0)
HPB/MIS (>40% cases are MIS)	7/7 (100.0)	3/7 (42.9)
Surgical oncology	8/44 (18.2)	18/44 (40.9)
Transplant surgery	9/37 (24.3)	20/36 (55.6)

GI, gastrointestinal tract.

n = number of respondents that were comfortable/total number of respondents in the Specialty track.