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Establishing the Southwest Catheter Skills Course – a closed loop quality improvement project
18 July 2024
| Shwetambra Vythialingam, Jaime Chan, Tom Abdul Munby Malik, Mahmoud Srour
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URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection
The General Medical Council states that foundation year doctors should be able to carry out male and female urethral catheterisation safely under direct supervision [1]. A 2014 survey of medical students demonstrated that 40% and 64% had never performed male...
The management of renal calculi – Pt 1
1 March 2018
| Vimoshan Arumuham, Daron Smith
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URO - Endourology & Stones
Renal calculi can be managed according to four treatment options: conservative management, extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL), flexible ureterorenoscopy (FURS) and percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). This is the first in a two-part series in Urology News (Part 2 available here) that will...
Introduction to virtual healthcare job interviews
17 March 2021
| Matthew J Wu, Elliott D Kozin
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URO - Technology
What’s the best way to run a video job interview? Matthew Wu and Elliott Kozin provide some top tips – both for interviewer and interviewee. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed almost every aspect of society. For the foreseeable future,...
45th Congress of the Société Internationale d’Urologie (SIU)
29 October 2025
-1 November 2025
Registration Opening January 24, 2025!
IN PERSON registration fees include:
Scientific Sessions (in person and virtual)
Complimentary access to the 7th Bench-to-Bedside Uro-Oncology: GU Cancers Triad Meeting (Friday, October 31)
Access to the Exhibit Hall
Complimentary access to scientific content on the virtual congress platform, SIU@U, including live chats, virtual exhibit, gamification and session polling
Access to the Congress Mobile App
VIRTUAL registration fees include:
Key Scientific Sessions broadcast live and available on-demand, including the Bench-to-Bedside Uro-Oncology: GU Cancers Triad Meeting
Full access to the virtual congress platform, SIU@U, including live chat, virtual exhibit, gamification and session polling
Access to the Congress Mobile App
A negative ureteroscopy for stone disease: is it acceptable and is it avoidable?
1 September 2018
| Paul Lloyd, Thomas Johnston, Jack Coode-Bate, Stephen R Keoghane
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URO - Endourology & Stones
Urinary tract stone disease and the consequent demand for endoscopic intervention in the upper urinary tract is an increasing phenomenon [1]. Although ureteroscopy is generally considered to be associated with low morbidity [2], risks do exist. Recognised complications include urothelial...
OCERT: a new multi-specialty project to standardise robotic surgical training
3 June 2020
| Marco Amato, Stefano Puliatti, Elio Mazzone, Paolo Dell’Oglio, Anthony G Gallagher, Alexandre Mottrie
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URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology
Since its introduction by Dr William Osler in 1890 to the Board of Trustees at John Hopkins Hospital [1], the Halstedian ‘See one, do one, teach one’ has represented a guideline for surgeons worldwide, both for open and laparoscopic surgery,...
Robotic assisted perineal prostatectomy: descriptive technique of the inaugural case in the UK
1 January 2019
| Jonathan Noël, Bradley Russell, Christopher Ogden, Jihad Kaouk
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URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology
Robotic surgery has taken full flight in the USA since its start in 2000 [1] and is replacing procedures where open surgical techniques were solely employed. While this technology is met with criticism over the costs, the superiority of robotic...
The workplace environment and doctors’ health
1 July 2017
| Antony Garelick
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URO - Core Urology
It is well established that doctors have higher levels of stress, depression and suicide than the general population [1] and most other professional groups. In addition they have high levels of ‘burnout’. Research indicates that although burnout is correlated with...
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...
How an ergonomic design is helping women overcome barriers in ISC
6 May 2020
Urinary incontinence, or loss of bladder control, is a frustrating problem for millions of people. Never knowing when and where one might have an accident can affect everything: from work to family and social life. It happens to both men...
Conservative management of pelviureteric junction
13 March 2023
| Asif H Ansari, Dev Gulur
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Paediatric Urology
Background Pelviureteric junction obstruction (PUJO) is defined as a functionally significant impairment of urine flow from the renal pelvis into the proximal ureter. For more than a century, surgery was considered the first-choice approach to management. However, the widespread use...
Practical surgical management of chronic testicular pain
1 January 2019
| Mohammad Hassan Khan, Naeemuddin Ahmed Shaikh
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URO - Andrology, URO - Infection, URO - Trauma & Emergency
Chronic testicular pain (CTP) is defined as constant or intermittent, unilateral or bilateral testicular pain of more than three months’ duration, which significantly interferes with the daily activities of the patient prompting medical advice [1-4]. This condition is commonly seen...
