Written informed consent is not required because of the observational and anonymous nature of this study. ATP-LRG is a national training program carried out by Fujian Medical University Union Hospital. Each training lasts about 1.5 days, which includes 1) detailed technique description; 2) prevention and solving of intraoperative complications; 3) live surgery performance; 4) theory and practice of clinical research; 5) comments on trainees' videos; and 6) questions, answers and discussions. In this study, 875 trainees who participated in ATP-LRG from January 2015 to October 2020 were interviewed using electronic questionnaires. Using a repeated-measures design to examine differences in outcomes before and after participating in the training. Questionnaire Star (Changsha Ranxing Information Technology Co., Ltd), a most widely used professional online questionnaire software platform in China, was used to design and create a link to the questionnaire. The questionnaire's link was sent to each trainee via WeChat (Tencent Holdings Limited), the most commonly used social networking software in China.
This study aims to evaluate the outcomes of the advanced training program for laparoscopic radical gastrectomy (ATP-LRG). The research subjects are the trainees who participated in this training program.