National Implementation of Simulator Training Improves Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumours in Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transurethral resection of bladder tumours (TURBT) is the initial diagnostic treatment for patients with bladder cancer. TURBT is not an easy procedure to master and simulator training may play a role in improving the learning curve.

Objective

To implement a national training programme for simulation-based mastery learning in TURBT and explore operating theatre performance after training.

Design setting and participants

From June 2019 to March 2021, 31 doctors at urology departments in Denmark performed two pretraining TURBT procedures on patients, followed by proficiency-based mastery learning on a virtual reality simulator and then two post-training TURBTs on patients.

Outcome measurements and statistical analyses

Operating theatre performances wer

SUBMITTER: Bube SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9068726 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature