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Our experience: from London and Glasgow urology, to the world down under
4 July 2024
| Ibrahim Ibrahim, Tom Reid
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URO - Core Urology
In November 2023, we were privileged to have been hosted at the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand’s (USANZ) annual trainee week in the beautiful city of Adelaide, South Australia. Each year, USANZ organises a week for their local...
Burnout in surgery
5 May 2021
| Alice Hartley
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URO - Core Urology
When I was pregnant with my first child, I went to a talk on how to achieve work-life balance and avoid burnout. It was given by a highly respected Australian surgeon and I was eager to hear the secrets that...
COVID-19: the impact on urology so far
4 May 2020
| Thomas E Webb, Russell G-R Davies, Karl H Pang
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URO - Core Urology
“How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.” Florence Nightingale Since 31 December 2019 when a cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause were first referred to the WHO Country Office in China, there has been...
Overview of partial nephrectomy techniques: influence of technology
Traditionally, radical nephrectomy was the preferred operation for kidney cancer, while partial nephrectomy was reserved for specific circumstances and essential indications such as a tumour in a solitary kidney, bilateral kidney tumours, or severe chronic kidney disease (CKD). Given the...Demanding cases or nightmares in uro-oncology? May/Jun 2022
3 May 2022
| Vincent Chong, Youssef Ibrahim, Majid Shabbir
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URO - Urologic Oncology
Delayed diagnosis of testicular cancer Testicular cancer is considered rare in the general population but is the most common cancer affecting males between 24 and 49 years. The diagnosis of testicular cancer depends on physical examination, ultrasound findings and tumour...
Robotic Urology Fellowship at UCLH
1 May 2016
| Imran Ahmad
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URO - Core Urology
In November 2014, approaching my final year of training (ST7) in the West of Scotland (WoS) and just recently armed with my FRCS (Urol), I was at a crossroad in my clinical career. I was keen to pursue a consultant...
Erectile dysfunction part II: treatment
1 May 2014
| Asif Muneer, Jas Kalsi, David J Ralph
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URO - Andrology
Introduction The identification of specific risk factors associated with erectile dysfunction (ED) allows patients with mild or moderate ED to undergo a series of lifestyle changes, which may provide enough improvement in the erectile function to avoid pharmacotherapies. Cessation of...
Prostate cancer series: diagnostics 1
8 January 2025
| Abida Sultana, Henry Tam, Hashim U Ahmed (Prof), Lap Yan Leung
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URO - Urologic Oncology
- Click here for Part 2 - A 58-year-old male is referred to your rapid access prostate clinic with a prostate specific antigen (PSA) of 6.0ng/ml. He has no lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), past medical history (PMH), or family...
A guide to percutaneous nephrolithotomy
1 July 2019
| Vimoshan Arumuham, Daron Smith
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URO - Endourology & Stones
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is now the gold standard approach to treating large renal stones. Since its development in the 1970s, it has undergone a series of refinements that could only have been possible with the symbiosis of both radiological and...
Simulation-based training of procedural skills: application and integration of educational theories
1 November 2017
| Mussammet D Ahmed
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URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Infection, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology, URO - Technology
Educational theories: how familiar are we with these theories and their application in our training? As a Simulation Fellow I have been involved in teaching specific procedural skills and running full immersion simulation sessions. This experience has exposed me to...
The life of a urology trainee in Singapore
1 November 2014
| Shum Cheuk Fan
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URO - Core Urology
Despite the political and cultural differences between the United Kingdom and Singapore, the quality and nature of the medical training systems remain uniquely similar. It will come as no surprise to those of you who have either worked in Singapore...
Patient decision aids in the management of stress urinary incontinence
9 March 2020
| Holly Bekarma, Jennifer Jones
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Urinary incontinence is a common condition faced by up to 20-50% of women, which impairs quality of life and poses a significant socioeconomic burden to both the individual women involved and more widely to the NHS [1]. The overall cost...
