Advanced Cystoscopy Training for APPs: Afternoon Session - Space is limited!

Role of Advanced Practice Providers and Other Allied Health Professionals:
The AUA endorses the participation of advanced practice providers and allied health professionals in the care of genitourinary disease through a formally defined, supervisory role with a urologist certified by the ABU, AOBS or other certifying board for urology, under the auspices of applicable state or national law.

Skills Training Goal:
AUA’s goal with this skills training is to support safe, team-based care led by urologists providing structured educational opportunities in a controlled, simulation-focused environment—not to replace physician training, nor to independently credential procedural practice.

This new APP skills training provides a standardized training tailored to the needs of the advanced practice provider (APP) seeking procedural skills training in office-based cystoscopy and urethral catheterization. This training is recommended for APPs with clinical exposure to patients with relevant urologic complaints including hematuria, bladder cancer, urolithiasis, neurogenic bladder, and voiding dysfunction and a basic understanding of relevant genitourinary anatomy related to the urethra, prostate, and bladder.

This training offers both in-person and virtual components with a robust half-day of hands-on training in the most critical procedural areas of need for APPs along with an online library of on-demand virtual didactics straight from the experts. This in-person Hands-on Skills Training will be held on Thursday, May 14, 2026 in Washington, D.C. as part of the Annual Meeting’s pre-meeting programming.

Please note, this is the Afternoon Session taking place from 1 - 5 PM. The Morning and Afternoon sessions are identical so you may only register for one.”

After attending this training, participants will be able to:
1. Explain diagnostic flexible cystoscopy and increase familiarity with common bladder/urethral/prostatic pathology.
2. Perform foreign body removal with flexible basket or grasper.
3. Demonstrate technique for intravesical botox needle injection therapy.
4. Manage difficult urethral catheter placement/stricture dilation.