Current Landscape of Surgical Assessment Models in Urology Residency Training.

Surgical training is evolving toward a competency-based model, as evidenced by the increase in assessment tools created within the past 10 years. These instruments not only provide objective feedback to trainees, but also monitor progression. However, they are heterogeneous in construct and utilization. There remains a need for the adoption of a standardized, valid, and reliable tool, ie, both procedure-specific and generalizable across multiple procedures for use in urology training.