The readiness for clerkship survey:  can self-assessment data be used to evaluate program effectiveness?
These results provide evidence that, when aggregated, student self-assessment data from the Readiness for Clerkship Survey provide valid data for use in program evaluation that align well with an external standard.
Although today most stone cases can be handled by minimally invasive treatment, open stone surgery maintains a mandatory role in very selected cases. The most common indication in our series though was complex stones with a high stone burden especially in combination with anatomical variations.