Medical Education Articles

Dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system is an important long-term consequence of spinal cord injury (SCI). Yet, there is a scarcity of teaching resources about this topic for preclinical medical students.

After 2008 and 2012 USPSTF recommendations against PSA screening, studies revealed a decline in screening rates and trend towards more advanced disease at presentation. After revision of this recommendation in 2017, PSA screening guidelines remain inconsistent and controversy still exists about its clinical utility.

Shared decision-making (SDM) is an approach to patient-centered care that is strongly recommended when counseling patients for screening and treatment of prostate cancer. However, providers report lack of comfort with SDM and particularly in disparate populations.

Scant literature exists about the quality of urogynecological content on social media. Our objective was to measure the accuracy and comprehensiveness of YouTube videos related to mid-urethral sling (MUS) procedures.

OBJECTIVES - To assess urology residents' current knowledge, practice, previous training, barriers and training needs regarding prostate cancer treatment-related sexual dysfunction.

METHODS - A cross-sectional questionnaire study inventoried the practice patterns and training need of urology residents attending a national training course in June 2015.

To create an online resource that teaches urologists how to interpret prostate multi-parametric MRIs (mpMRI). As prostate mpMRI becomes widely adopted for cancer diagnosis and targeted biopsy, it is increasingly important that urologists are comfortable and experienced in assessing the images.

To perform the first validation of a full procedural virtual reality robotic training module and analysis of novice surgeon's learning curves.

Participants completed the bladder neck dissection task and urethrovesical anastomosis task (UVA) as part of the prostatectomy module.

Ad-hoc guidelines for managing the COVID-19 pandemic are published worldwide. We investigated international applications of such policies in the urologic-oncology community.

A 20-item survey was e-mailed via SurveyMonkey to 100 international senior urologic-oncology surgeons.

Background: Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is an embarrassing condition, which is one of the last taboos in modern medicine. The study aim was an attempt to assess medical students' knowledge of female stress urinary incontinence.