Residency training program paradigms for teaching robotic surgical skills to urology residents

Current Urology Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 87-92

  Grover, Sonal ^a   Tan, Gerald Y ^a   Srivastava, Abhishek ^a   Leung, Robert A ^a   Tewari, Ashutosh K ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Prostatectomy; Robotic; Training

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RESIDENT; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UROLOGIC SURGERY;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; LAPAROSCOPY; PROSTATECTOMY; ROBOTICS; TEACHING; UROLOGY;

EID: 77952240402     PISSN: 15272737     EISSN: 15346285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11934-010-0093-9     Document Type: Review

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