Urological Education in United States Medical Schools: Where Are We Now and How Can We Do Better?

Introduction: While urological complaints increase in aging populations and conditions commonly require management by multiple physician specialty types, exposure to formal urological education in United States medical schools is limited and has been decreasing over time. We aim to update the current status of urological education in the United States curriculum and delve further into the subject matter being taught and the type and timing of this education.

Methods: An 11-question survey was developed to describe the current status of urological education.

An algorithm to reduce human-robot interface compliance errors in posture estimation in wearable robots.

Assistive forces transmitted from wearable robots to the robot's users are often defined by controllers that rely on the accurate estimation of the human posture. The compliant nature of the human-robot interface can negatively affect the robot's ability to estimate the posture. In this article, we present a novel algorithm that uses machine learning to correct these errors in posture estimation.

Opioid Use and Associated Patient Satisfaction With Pain Control After Endoscopic Surgery and Robotic-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

Objective: To evaluate patient reported measures in patients undergoing endourologic procedures and robotic assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) to demonstrate the efficacy of non-opioid postoperative pain management strategies.

Materials And Methods: A prospective cohort study performed at an academic medical center included a patient telephone questionnaire and chart review. Opioid prescriptions, opioid use, and patient reported outcomes were recorded.

Obstructing Ureteral Calculi and Presumed Infection: Impact of Antimicrobial Duration and Time From Decompression to Stone Treatment in Developing Urosepsis.

Objective: To determine whether the duration of antibiotic treatment and timing between urgent renal decompression and stone intervention impacts the risk of developing urosepsis following definitive stone treatment.

Materials & Methods: A retrospective review of patients who were diagnosed with obstructive urolithiasis and underwent urgent decompression with a ureteral double J stent or percutaneous nephrostomy at our institution between 2012 and 2018 was performed. We narrowed our analysis to the subset of patients who had suspected infection and received definitive stone treatment at our institution.