Lapnurse-A Blended Learning Course for Nursing Education in Minimally Invasive Surgery: Design and Experts' Preliminary Validation of Its Online Theoretical Module.

Background: The implantation of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) leads to the specialization of nurses in this surgical field. However, there is no standard curriculum of MIS Nursing in Europe. Spanish and Portuguese nurses are inexperienced and have poor training in MIS.

[Validity studies in laparoscopic simulation. Methodology and design considerations.].

Objectives: To describe a roadmap of the most representative milestones and considerations in the validation of surgical simulators, especially those of laparoscopic surgery. And additionally, help determine when in this process a simulator can be considered as validated.

Methods: A non-systematic review was carried out searching terms like simulation, validation, training, assessment, skills and learning curve, as well as providing the experience accumulated by our center.

[Evaluation of competencies in urology. Esscolap® basic, as aproximation to urologists skills improvement.].

Unlabelled: Urology needs models of competencies assessment, although there is a wide range of tools not yet integrated into the official training programs.

Context: At present, there is no universal framework for measuring surgeons' level of competence. Urology training programs should provide and consider knowledge, pyschomotor/cognitive skills, and simulator, cadaver or animal models-based training.

[Training in basic and advanced laparoscopy: Evaluation of a 30-year experience in a training program in Spain.].

The lack of globally established standards for learning urological laparoscopy has not prevented laparoscopic techniques from evolution and continuous development. Laparoscopy coexists with robotic surgery today, and in the last decade there have been many techniques that have undergone a boom with the use of a laparoscopic approach (total and partial nephrectomy, pyeloplasty, colposacropexy, etc.).

The reach of Spanish-language YouTube videos on physical examinations made by undergraduate medical students.

This study was conducted to evaluate the performance and reach of YouTube videos on physical examinations made by Spanish university students. We analyzed performance metrics for 4 videos on physical examinations in Spanish that were created by medical students at Miguel Hernández University (Elche, Spain) and are available on YouTube, on the following topics: the head and neck (7:30), the cardiovascular system (7:38), the respiratory system (13:54), and the abdomen (11:10). We used the Analytics application offered by the YouTube platform to analyze the reach of the videos from the upload date (February 17, 2015) to July 28, 2017 (2 years, 5 months, and 11 days).

[Pyramid training model in laparoscopic surgery].

Background: Minimally invasive surgery implementation requires a regulated and orderly learning process.

Methods: Jesús Usón Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre promotes a pyramid training model structured into four levels: training of basic and advanced skills in physical simulator (level 1), training of anatomical protocols and advanced skills with animal models (level 2) training advanced procedural skills with tele-surgical applications (level 3), and training in the operating room (level 4). Training provided at levels 1 and 2 is described and evaluated.

[New technologies in minimally invasive surgery training: what do surgeons demand?].

Background: Minimally invasive surgery might greatly benefit from the Information and Communications Technologies. The objective of this work is to determine the better approach to include those technologies, in particular an e-Learning platform, into an in-person training course.

Methods: An online survey was sent to all participants in any of the laparoscopic training courses at Jesús Usón Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre.