Technological advances across orthopaedic surgery are rapidly accelerating as teams strive to optimize postoperative patient function and lower historically stubborn dissatisfaction rates. Within adult reconstruction, the utilization of robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty (rTKA) has intensified, championed for its ability to deliver ultra-precise component positioning, reliable gap symmetry assessment, and minimized soft-tissue trauma.
However, despite these elegant intraoperative parameters, a critical systemic question has been left completely unanswered: how is this technological wave shifting the surgical education of our residents? Operating with digital assistance demands an entirely different framework of conceptual and physical steps compared to standard manual surgery.
