Purpose : Complex skills, such as ureteroscopy and stone extraction, are increasingly
taught to novice urology trainees using bench models in surgical skills laboratories. We …

Background With increasing pressure to use operating room time efficiently, opportunities
for residents to learn fiberoptic orotracheal intubation in the operating room have declined. …

… When surgical performance was measured using checklists and global rating scales, our
findings support the work of Matsumoto et al, 14 who showed that endoscopic training on a low-…

PURPOSE:: We evaluated the durability of laboratory based technical skills training in
urological microsurgery using bench model simulators. METHODS AND MATERIALS:: A total of …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether surgical residents could significantly
improve their performance on a specific surgical procedure after a brief practice session with …

Visual-spatial ability is thought to be important in competency in specific surgical procedures.
To test this hypothesis, 37surgical residents completed six tests of visual-spatial ability, …

Purpose : Ablative treatments (cryoablation or radio frequency ablation) for renal cell
carcinoma aim to decrease morbidity by treating renal tumors in situ, eliminating the need for …

Purpose : We investigated the effects of didactic teaching and supervised hands-on practice
on endourological skills using high fidelity genitourinary bench models at a surgical skills …

Our purposes were: 1) to establish the predictive validity of stereoscopic visual acuity and
microsurgical performance, and 2) to establish the construct and concurrent validity of hand‐…

Background and Purpose: Needle ablative therapies are being offered to patients presenting
with small renal masses, but long-term outcomes are currently unavailable. We report our …