Training Postgraduate Urologists in Laparoscopic Surgery: The Current Challenge

Abstract

This mini-fellowship model provides practicing urologists with a clinically applicable teaching experience to learn a new surgical concept using a familiar training pattern. It may be a more rapid and safe process of disseminating laparoscopic urological surgery to community urologists. Based on this model it would be possible for centers of excellence in each state to establish similar training programs for the corresponding urological community, thereby, bringing the teaching of new surgical skills to a more clinically relevant level.