Teaching And Mentoring: A Multi-Center Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy Experience

 01.07.2008 04:33   medicalnewstoday.com

ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - Canadian investigators created a teaching and mentoring method called "block" surgery to simplify and improve time efficiency and safety while maintaining acceptable oncological and functional outcomes during the learning curve of a laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP). The LRP was broken down into 10 key "blocks" assigned different levels of difficulty. Practicing urologists were recruited from multiple centers.

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