BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Urology training, like most surgical specialties, has traditionally adopted a volume-based apprenticeship structure to facilitate skill acquisition and ensure competence.[ 1 ]
Extensive exposure to theatre and other clinical settings, combined with knowledge-based examinations, have generally produced safe and technically competent surgeons.[ 2,3 ] Conversely, premature exposure to patients, for either the early trainee or the trained surgeon who is developing a new skill, has often resulted in increased complication rates because of suboptimal technical skills.[ 2,4,5 ] Worldwide, urology training is confronting the myriad pressures facing surgery as a whole, which include the reduction in training duration and ever growing demands to assure patient safety,[ 5-9 ] and this is at a time in urology where novel techniques are continuously emerging and operators are required to stay abreast of the evolving laparoscopic and robotic approaches.[ 10 ] ..View or save the full text Mini Review as a .pdf file
Kamran Ahmed, Tarik Amer, Ben Challacombe, Peter Jaye,* Prokar Dasgupta, and Mohammad Shamim Khan
MRC Centre for Transplantation, King’s College London, King’s Health Partners, Department of Urology, Guy’s Hospital , and *Department of Accident and Emergency, St. Thomas Hospital, London, UK
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