Cadaveric Dissection vs Homemade Model: What is the Best Way to Teach Endoscopic Totally Extraperitoneal Inguinal Hernia Repair?

While the overall educational experience of 14 learners favored a cadaver experience to learn TEP-IHR, initial anatomical learning and placing the mesh was better with an inanimate model. Given the educational value of the 2 methods was equivalent, the $1500 cost for cadavers make the inexpensive and repeatable inanimate model an attractive early resource for learning TEP-IHR.