Changes in Chief Resident Surgical Volume and Case Type across 70 Years: Lessons Learned from a Urology Training Program.

Introduction: We compared urology resident case logs from the mid 20th century to the modern period to learn about case volume, category and the contribution of open cases in today's training programs.

Methods: We performed a retrospective review and comparison of operative case logs from 1946 to 1953 and 2009 to 2015. Early logs were obtained from a Veterans Affairs Medical Center which served as a single center urology training program at that time.