Advanced Cystoscopy Training for APPs: Morning 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 transurethral cystoscopy. 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 Morning Session taking place from 7 - 11 AM. 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.