URO Mentor

The Only VR Simulator for Endourology Training

The Only VR Simulator for Endourology Training

The URO Mentor enables the practice of basic skills and complete flow of a variety of endourology diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, including cystoscopy, ureteroscopy, stone manipulation, stricture treatment and BPH treatment such as TURP.

It provides a unique opportunity to work with a variety of scopes and tools while visualizing a true-to-life endoscopic and fluoroscopic display.

Start with practicing basic skills to get familiar with the anatomy and tools and continue with the complete procedure training on a variety of virtual patient cases presenting different anatomies and pathologies.

 

TURP Module for BPH Treatment

See how the cases in our newest module present realistic scenarios of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) with small to large side lobes, median lobes and varying degrees of bleeding.

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Features and Benefits

  • A complete teaching and assessment curriculum from essential skills to diagnostic and therapeutic endourology procedures
  • A variety of realistic scopes and endourological devices: flexible or rigid cystoscopes and ureteroscopes, resectoscopes, guidewires, stents, balloons, forceps, laser, EHL and more
  • Simulated real-time fluoroscopy and angiography assist in navigation
  • Diverse patient anatomies and pathologies provide a step-by-step, realistic training scenarios
  • Extensively validated training value with over 40 studies

Validation Studies

Transfer of cysto-urethroscopy skills from a virtual-reality simulator to the operating room: a randomized controlled trial B M.A. Schout, H J.K. Ananias, B L.H. Bemelmans, F C.H. D’Ancona, A M.M. Muijtjens, V E.M.G. Dolmans, A J.J.A. Scherpbier, Ad J.M. Hendrikx, June 2010

The results showed that interns who had trained on UM outperformed controls for a CUS procedure in a patient. Training for CUS on the UM is to be recommended for learning to respect tissue, procedural knowledge, flow of procedure and forward planning. Use of the UM to train interns with a specific interest in a surgical speciality in handling instruments, and time and motion, seems to be of limited value.

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The SIMULATE ureteroscopy training curriculum: educational value and transfer of skills A Aydın, K Ahmed, U Baig, N Raison, A G. Lantz Powers, N Macchione, A Al‑Jabir, T Abe, M Shamim Khan, P Dasgupta, Jan 2021

The SIMULATE URS training curriculum received high educational value from participants, who demonstrated statistically signifcant improvement with consecutive cases throughout the curriculum and transferability of skills to the OR in both semi-rigid and fexible URS.

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