Table 2. Comparisons of kidney transplant case log number and mean visual analog scale score for survey questions regarding the bench-top kidney transplant surgery simulator between PGY 1-3 and PGY 4-5 residents.

^aMann-Whitney U test

PGY: post-graduate year

Survey questions	Mean score		P-valuea
	PGY 1-3 (n = 10)	PGY 4-5 (n = 8)
Case log number	2 ± 0	18 ± 4	<0.01
1. Difficulty level of the model	25 ± 6	37 ± 5	0.37
2. Realism of arterial and venous anastomoses	70 ± 5	70 ± 8	0.86
3. Practice needle control/precision	89 ± 5	93 ± 2	0.82
4. Improve suturing speed	87 ± 5	94 ± 2	0.52
5. Practice knot tying/handling small sutures	91 ± 3	86 ± 8	1.00
6. Learn operative steps	79 ± 8	88 ± 3	0.68
7. Learn to assist	87 ± 5	82 ± 6	0.50
8. Adaptation to magnifying surgical loupes	81 ± 8	83 ± 9	0.96
9. Access to model before the first kidney transplant	96 ± 2	98 ± 2	0.73
10. Inclusion of model in transplant curriculum	91 ± 4	99 ± 1	0.16