How do I assess my surgeon’s experience?

Mayo, surgeon, assumption is he/she is managed, developed and supported very well.

Like kennyo, I just asked him. He said he'd done over 300 and does roughly 50 per year. That works out to about one per week which I think is enough to keep him sharp. I'm one month out from surgery and everything is as expected so far.
Best wishes
Quaddick

I just want to add and reiterate that "number" of performed surgeries alone might be a good indicator of surgeon's capability and facility where surgery is performed alone is "somewhat" an indicator, BUT without knowing surgeon's persoal record none of that means much.

There are talented and capable surgeons, and then there are solid ones, and than there are really sloppy ones which you can find across board. You can find exceptional surgeon at Kaiser and an just "OK one" at Mayo (or any other "big name" hospital).

ASK !!! ; )

@surftohealth88 That is so true. Just because someone performs 5 or more surgeries per week, it does not follow that he/she is meticulous. It’s quality, not quantity.
And one would HOPE that a Mayo or a Sloan is policing their surgeons since their reputation as an institution is directly proportional to the quality of its staff.
But we are living in a strange time of venture capital driven medicine and I’m not sure if the words ‘First, do no harm…’ even apply anymore…
Phil

So interestingly, when I was in the final process of selecting my surgeon (Dr Ahlering at UCI , a COE) using the “interweb”, I found a couple of bad articles on him in the Orange County Register (Calif) from early 2000 in their medical section that gave me pause for my selection. The author cited that the risks of RALP were being downplayed by Dr Ahlering. Hmmm, more research revealed the pieces were authored by advocates of “old school” single incision open surgery and were not so keen on this new expensive RALP process that they did not have a access to…Ah Ha… a smoking scalpel!
I ended up calling UCI Medical Center and they provided references for their surgical staff including the number of surgeries they had performed and links to seemingly countless research papers in Google Scholar authored by their surgeons. It seemed like when you are at a COE Medical center, they are all highly trained and qualified. I chose my surgeon Dr Ahlering in spite of the negative press, based on his research work and the fact that he trained most of the surgeons at UCI and many in other medical centers.