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VR, reconstructive urology and the future of surgery education

Nature Reviews Urology volume 20, pages 325–326 (2023)Cite this article

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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted surgical training worldwide, and reconstructive urology training has been neglected at the expense of more urgent life-saving procedures. To help address this problem, virtual reality must become a fundamental training aid in modern reconstructive urology surgery education.

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  1. Department of Urology, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland

    Mikołaj Frankiewicz & Marcin Matuszewski

  2. Department of Urology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Malte W. Vetterlein

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Frankiewicz, M., Vetterlein, M.W., Matuszewski, M. et al. VR, reconstructive urology and the future of surgery education. Nat Rev Urol 20, 325–326 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-022-00722-x

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