American Urological Association · Core Curriculum teaching video submission

AUA Core Curriculum teaching videos

Henry M. Blair · Luke Jenusaitis, MD · Allison Polland, MD

The AUA Core Curriculum is where urology's apprenticeship gets written down for everyone. These are two entries built for it — a sacral neuromodulation lead placement and a pessary fitting — scripted, filmed, narrated and cut, and submitted on August 31st, 2026.

videos submitted

15:07

total runtime

pessary types covered

1080p

filmed and cut

Status. Both videos were submitted to the AUA Core Curriculum on August 31st, 2026, each with its written abstract and a non-exclusive license to AUA Education & Research. Runtimes are 7:58 and 7:09 — both inside the AUA's hard eight-minute cap. Awaiting the AUA's decision; the cuts will be linked here once released.

Sacral neuromodulation placement

Runtime 7:58 · submitted August 31st, 2026

Percutaneous placement of a peripheral nerve evaluation (PNE) lead for sacral neuromodulation, using the Medtronic InterStim system in a patient with refractory overactive bladder.

What the video walks through

Patient positioning
Fluoroscopic localization of the S3 foramen
Needle and lead placement guided by motor and sensory response
Securing the lead and connecting an external trial stimulator

Sacral neuromodulation is a reversible, office-based option for patients who have failed conservative and pharmacologic therapy, and a successful trial predicts response to permanent implantation. The video is built around the anatomic landmarks and the troubleshooting points a trainee actually needs.

Vaginal pessaries: types and fitting

Runtime 7:09 · submitted August 31st, 2026

Pessaries are a safe, effective, first-line, non-surgical option for pelvic organ prolapse and stress incontinence — and many trainees never see a fitting performed. That gap is the reason this video exists.

What the video walks through

The three pessary families — support, space-filling, and incontinence — and the six most commonly used types
A live fitting encounter: positioning, antiseptic prep, and trial of two device sizes
Anatomic predictors of a harder fit: enlarged genital hiatus, posterior-predominant prolapse, short vaginal length, advanced-stage prolapse
Follow-up, self-management, and complication management for safe long-term use

The question

How do you teach a procedure whose difficulty is entirely in the hands — where to stand, what to feel for, what the wrong answer looks like — to someone who cannot be in the room?

How it is being done

Each video is scripted section by section against the AUA's teaching-video format, with every line of narration mapped to the specific footage, still or diagram it plays over.
Anatomic and procedural diagrams were built from scratch rather than sourced, because the AUA submission requires clear rights to every element on screen.
Filmed at 1080p and cut to sit under the AUA's eight-minute limit — long enough to show the judgment, short enough that a trainee will actually watch it.
Each submission is a package: the video, a written abstract, and a signed non-exclusive license.

The videos

Sacral neuromodulation placement

7:58 · submitted to the AUA Core Curriculum, August 31st, 2026. The cut will be posted here or linked to the AUA's release once a decision is made.

Vaginal pessaries: types and fitting

7:09 · submitted to the AUA Core Curriculum, August 31st, 2026. The cut will be posted here or linked to the AUA's release once a decision is made.

Materials

Watch: sacral neuromodulation placement (passphrase)Watch: vaginal pessaries, types and fitting (passphrase)

What comes next

Awaiting the AUA's decision on both submissions. The license is non-exclusive, so the cuts can be linked here regardless of the outcome.

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