Figure 1.

The da Vinci Surgical System with the identified non-technical skills and workload. The surgeon operates at the master side of the system, while the assistants can help them work at the patient side. The patient side arms are controlled by the surgeon with the master arms. Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery requires not just technical skills, but non-technical skills as well from the operating crew, namely inter-personal skills, leadership, cognitive skills and personal resource skills, while they have to deal with the workload. Original image credit: Intuitive Surgical Inc. [10].