The SIMS Class Online

What’s a SIMS? SIMS stands for Surgical Impotence Management Strategy. The class was originally designed as a way to educate men about the changes in erections that occur after a robotic radical prostatectomy. We began over 20 years ago at Minnesota Urology (then Metro Urology) educating men in a lecture format on a monthly basis. After a class or two it became obvious that we needed to expand the scope of the class to discuss postoperative care issues and urinary incontinence as well as impotence. This page contains a video I made about the SIMS class that became a very important tool during COVID-19 and men continue to find it helpful.

Part of the SIMS program is an education about vacuum erection devices (VED) by a patient educator. Although I do not have a video for VED education I was able to interview our patient educator about the VED when I was recording podcast episodes for the (now defunct) Why Urology Podcast. They are worth a listen.