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Innovations in urology – OOPE for trainees
3 November 2022
| Ibrahim Ibrahim
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URO - Technology
“Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat” – Steve Jobs [1] The world is changing rapidly. Healthcare has seen a fast reform, especially as a consequence of COVID-19. Urology is a rapidly evolving...
BAUS Section of Trainees (BSoT)
3 May 2022
7-9 March 2022 • Edinburgh, UK • Nicholas Boxall, Chair (Elect), BSoT, ST6 Urology, Health Education East of England; and Neil Harvey, BSoT Chair, ST7 Urological Surgery, North West Deanery. The BSoT conference kicked off on Monday 7 March with...
Initial impressions of urology in the UK from overseas trainees
3 September 2021
| Krishnendu Biswas, Hani Sayedin, Ahmad Khalifa, Gerald Rix, Stephen R Keoghane
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URO - Core Urology
Readers of Urology News will be familiar with descriptions of overseas visits by UK-based urological trainees, but it is sometimes beneficial to reflect on the experience of international medical graduates (IMGs) who elect to come to work and train in...
SURG and BAUS: United Strength is Stronger
1 September 2018
| Luke Forster, Katie E Chan, Jonathan Noël, Dora Moon, Louise E Olson
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URO - Core Urology
Tuesday 26 June 2018, SURG Session, BAUS Annual Conference, Liverpool After a busy day of posters, keynote speakers, e-poster sessions and a resounding victory for the SURG team over the consultants in Urology University Challenge, came the SURG meeting. An...
The surgical trainer – are we still evolving?
1 September 2016
| Craig McIlhenny
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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
“We need a system and we will surely have it – which will produce not only surgeons, but surgeons of the highest type” William Halsted MD William Halsted, a famous American surgeon, is widely credited with developing the first formal...
An overview of changes to urology training
1 January 2017
| Roland Morley
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URO - Core Urology
Paediatric urology training A review of paediatric emergency services in the UK involving general surgery, urology and paediatric surgery was initiated due to the problems encountered by the lack of suitable experience outside large paediatric surgical units to deliver emergency...
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,...
An Illustrated Guide to Pediatric Urology
1 May 2018
| Neil Featherstone
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URO - Paediatric Urology
This new illustrated guide (published 2017) provides a comprehensive coverage of the field of paediatric urology. There are 31 chapters. Written in bullet point form, it contains a wealth of information for urologists, specialty trainees and others (e.g. urological nurses)....
How to organise a urology taster week as a foundation trainee
5 November 2019
| Edward Caplan
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URO - Core Urology
Current exposure to urology in medical undergraduate curriculums is relatively sparse in comparison to the other surgical specialties with one study reporting just 42% of students having a compulsory attachment. These attachments were an average length of just one week...
Essential Revision Notes for the FRCS (Urol) Books 1 & 2
17 September 2020
| Jay Khastgir
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URO - Core Urology
In the past a Professor of Urology was frequently quoted as saying “the curriculum for urology is urology”. Indeed that it is, but that definition did not give trainees at the time the much needed framework for navigating through a...
European Urology Residents Education Programme (EUREP)
1 May 2015
| Ased Ali, Ayman Younis
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URO - Core Urology
The EAU’s 12th European Urology Residents Education Programme (EUREP) was held from 5-10 September 2014. We were fortunate to attend as part of a small contingent of UK urology registrars who had applied and been selected to attend. The programme...
