Qualitative interviews
SECONDARY
Following the second SimNow session, all the students from the experimental and control groups participated in semi-structured debriefing interviews with RW regarding their experience using the robotic surgery simulator during the first and second simulator sessions. As a medical student, RW was chosen to conduct the interviews to allow for the most open and frank discussion with interviewees. Participants in the experimental group were asked additional questions to learn about their experience using the home simulation kit (Supplemental File 2). All interviews were recorded with participant consent and responses were transcribed. The primary goal of these interviews was to understand how specific skills, movements, and knowledge gained from the use of the home simulation kit applied to the robotic surgery simulator exercises on SimNow. The secondary goal of the interviews was to identify common challenges that participants faced when practicing with the home simulation kit and to find any improvements that could be made to the design.All the transcripts were reviewed by two readers (RW and RB) independently and codes were identified using an inductive approach. The readers came to a consensus on developing the codebook. All transcripts were then double-coded, and the codes were reconciled. Themes were identified among coded data. In this analysis and to identify themes, RW brought her perspective as a medical student with no robotic surgery experience, and RB brought his perspective as a surgical resident with robotic surgery experience.