A Call for a Shift in Theory and Terminology for Validation Studies in Urological Education

Affiliations

¹ WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare and Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Urology Department, Benha Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt.
² WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare and Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Electronic address: rsweet@uw.edu.

Editorial

Yasser A Noureldin et al. J Urol. 2018 Mar.

. 2018 Mar;199(3):617-620.

doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2017.10.022. Epub 2017 Oct 20.

¹ WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare and Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Urology Department, Benha Faculty of Medicine, Benha University, Benha, Egypt.
² WWAMI Institute for Simulation in Healthcare and Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Electronic address: rsweet@uw.edu.

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Comment on

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Validation of surgical simulators.
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