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Simulator Availability Index: a novel easy indicator to track training trends. Is Europe currently at a urological training recession risk?
INTRODUCTION: To evaluate the European trend regarding the availability of surgical simulators and to propose a novel index to easily track this trend. MATERIAL AND METHODS: During European Urology Residents Education Program, from 2014 to 2018, residents were asked through an anonymous survey about...
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Polish Urological Association
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7407789/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32782845 http://dx.doi.org/10.5173/ceju.2020.0048 |
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author | Mantica, Guglielmo Rivas, Juan Gomez Carrion, Diego M. Rodriguez-Socarrás, Moises E. Esperto, Francesco Cacciamani, Giovanni E. Veneziano, Domenico |
author_facet | Mantica, Guglielmo Rivas, Juan Gomez Carrion, Diego M. Rodriguez-Socarrás, Moises E. Esperto, Francesco Cacciamani, Giovanni E. Veneziano, Domenico |
author_sort | Mantica, Guglielmo |
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description | INTRODUCTION: To evaluate the European trend regarding the availability of surgical simulators and to propose a novel index to easily track this trend. MATERIAL AND METHODS: During European Urology Residents Education Program, from 2014 to 2018, residents were asked through an anonymous survey about the availability of specific simulator training boxes at their department. The Simulator Availability Index (SAI) was made by the ratio between the number of departments with at least one box trainer and the total number of departments evaluated. RESULTS: The SAI decreased in five years from 0.47 to 0.41 for laparoscopic trainers, while the already low initial SAI (0.17) decreased by up to 0.05 in four years for both ureteroscopy (URS) and transurethral resection (TUR) trainers. CONCLUSIONS: A self-analysis may be advisable in order to improve the spread of information and investigate whether any specific reasons may be responsible for this trend. The SAI might be a simple but useful tool to monitor and evaluate this trend in the context of national training plans. |
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spelling | pubmed-74077892020-08-10 Simulator Availability Index: a novel easy indicator to track training trends. Is Europe currently at a urological training recession risk? Mantica, Guglielmo Rivas, Juan Gomez Carrion, Diego M. Rodriguez-Socarrás, Moises E. Esperto, Francesco Cacciamani, Giovanni E. Veneziano, Domenico Cent European J Urol Short Communication INTRODUCTION: To evaluate the European trend regarding the availability of surgical simulators and to propose a novel index to easily track this trend. MATERIAL AND METHODS: During European Urology Residents Education Program, from 2014 to 2018, residents were asked through an anonymous survey about the availability of specific simulator training boxes at their department. The Simulator Availability Index (SAI) was made by the ratio between the number of departments with at least one box trainer and the total number of departments evaluated. RESULTS: The SAI decreased in five years from 0.47 to 0.41 for laparoscopic trainers, while the already low initial SAI (0.17) decreased by up to 0.05 in four years for both ureteroscopy (URS) and transurethral resection (TUR) trainers. CONCLUSIONS: A self-analysis may be advisable in order to improve the spread of information and investigate whether any specific reasons may be responsible for this trend. The SAI might be a simple but useful tool to monitor and evaluate this trend in the context of national training plans. Polish Urological Association 2020-04-06 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7407789/ /pubmed/32782845 http://dx.doi.org/10.5173/ceju.2020.0048 Text en Copyright by Polish Urological Association http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license. |
spellingShingle | Short Communication Mantica, Guglielmo Rivas, Juan Gomez Carrion, Diego M. Rodriguez-Socarrás, Moises E. Esperto, Francesco Cacciamani, Giovanni E. Veneziano, Domenico Simulator Availability Index: a novel easy indicator to track training trends. Is Europe currently at a urological training recession risk? |
title | Simulator Availability Index: a novel easy indicator to track training trends. Is Europe currently at a urological training recession risk? |
title_full | Simulator Availability Index: a novel easy indicator to track training trends. Is Europe currently at a urological training recession risk? |
title_fullStr | Simulator Availability Index: a novel easy indicator to track training trends. Is Europe currently at a urological training recession risk? |
title_full_unstemmed | Simulator Availability Index: a novel easy indicator to track training trends. Is Europe currently at a urological training recession risk? |
title_short | Simulator Availability Index: a novel easy indicator to track training trends. Is Europe currently at a urological training recession risk? |
title_sort | simulator availability index: a novel easy indicator to track training trends. is europe currently at a urological training recession risk? |
topic | Short Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7407789/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32782845 http://dx.doi.org/10.5173/ceju.2020.0048 |
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