The ERUS Curriculum for Robot-assisted Partial Nephrectomy: Structure Definition and Pilot Clinical Validation

Toward Individualized Approaches to Partial Nephrectomy: Assessing the Correlation Between Ischemia Time and Patient Health Status (RECORD2 Project)

“…This suggests that a surgeon's prior experience should be taken into consideration for preoperative counseling. In this regard, valuable standardization of experience is provided by surgical curricula [31]. In addition, our results suggest that more serious attention should be paid to functional profile before partial nephrectomy.…”

Definition of a Structured Training Curriculum for Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Ileal Conduit in Male Patients: A Delphi Consensus Study Led by the ERUS Educational Board

“…Under these premises, we developed the first available structured curriculum for RARC with intracorporeal ileal conduit. This structured training program is in line with those proposed by the European Association of Urology Robotic Urology Section (ERUS) for RARP [6] and robotassisted partial nephrectomy [5]. Theoretical and preclinical simulation-based training comprises the key elements.…”

“…The structure of the curriculum was defined relying on a modified Delphi consensus process [5]. Using Google Forms (https://www.google.com/intl/it/forms/about/), a webbased survey (Supplementary material) based on the available evidence was generated and delivered to a panel of 28 experts in the field of RARC.…”

“…Consequently, this curriculum is not applicable to female candidates for RC and cannot be used to assist surgeons during their learning process for RARC with neobladder. Second, no pilot clinical validation was provided that will ultimately show whether this ERUS curriculum will allow progression through the learning curve without a detrimental effect on the patient's clinical outcomes [5].…”

Reply to Nikolaos Grivas, Sanchia Goonewardene, Wouter Everaerts, Nikolaos Kalampokis’s Letter to the Editor re: Andrea Mari, Riccardo Tellini, Francesco Porpiglia, et al. Perioperative and Mid-term Oncological and Functional Outcomes After Partial Nephrectomy for Complex (PADUA Score ≥10) Renal Tumors: A Prospective Multicenter Observational Study (the RECORD2, Project). Eur Urol Focus. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2020.07.004

“…(1) To provide a standardized and effective validated training program, besides protecting patients from suboptimal outcomes during a surgeon's learning curve [5];…”