Novel Use of Household Items in Open and Robotic Surgical Skills Resident Education

Figure 2

Open prostatectomy model. The orange represents the prostate, and the bottle represents a deep pelvis. Learners can use this model to practice suturing and tying in the pelvis. If the orange is glued down, the learner could also perform a simple prostatectomy by cutting the peel and removing the flesh within the orange as the transitional zone.