Overall Goals of the Pediatric Urology Fellowship Program

The Pediatric Urology Fellowship Program seeks to recruit the best urology fellows and provide them the educational foundation for a successful career.  We seek to prepare our fellows for their lifelong educational and professional journey in Pediatric Urology by:

• Sharing knowledge from the dedicated faculty
• Developing surgical and patient care skills in an environment fostering progressive responsibility in patient management under appropriate supervision
• Teaching that will help them appraise and improve their own patient care, assess and assimilate new scientific knowledge, and contribute through research to the science of the profession
• Demonstrating interpersonal and communication skills necessary to effectively interact with patients, peers, and others
• Promoting professional ideals and adherence to ethical principles
• Preparing future Pediatric Urologists to effectively interact in an increasingly complex health care system
  

Specific Goals and Objectives — Year 1

Goals

The aim of the clinical care year is to prepare the fellow for a career either in Academic or Private Practice in Pediatric Urology. We are concentrating on producing ethically and morally considerate doctors who have excellent clinical skills and experience in their chosen field.

Objectives

At the end of this clinical year the fellows should be able to:

• Perform general and disease specific history and physical examinations.
• Order appropriate radiological investigations and interpret them, to make an accurate clinical diagnosis
• Decide on the most appropriate treatment management for the child, including the timing of and nature of surgical intervention
• Counsel and educate parents and patients about their medical condition and the treatment options available
• Appropriately take a consent from families and provide appropriate information to the patient
• Understand, perform and interpret Pediatric urodynamics
• Perform competently most Pediatric Urological procedures, including but not limited too:
  • Penile Surgery – Circumcision, Hypospadias and Epispadias
  • Groin Surgery – Hydroceles, Hernia, Orchiopexy, Varicocelectomy, Exploration for Torsion
  • Kidney Procedures – Pyeloplasty, Heminephrectomy, Nephrectomy
  • Ureteric Procedures – Ureteric anastomosis, Ureteric Reimplant
  • Bladder Procedures – Bladder Augmentation, Appendico-vesicostomy, Bladder diverticulum, Urachal excision
  • Laparoscopic and Robotic Procedures – Orchiopexy, Nephrectomy, Heminephrectomy, Pyeloplasties
  • Endoscopic Procedures – Cystoscopy, Ablation Posterior Urethral Valves, Excision Ureteroceles,Ureteroscopy, treatment of stone disease
• Manage patients with stone disease
• Manage patients, with oncological problems including: Wilms tumor, Rhadomyosarcoma and Testicluar tumors
• Understand the surgical management of renal transplantation
• Manage pre-and post operative patients
• Understand surgical complications and appropriately manage them
• Critically review and evaluate newly presented and published research
• Present at a National Meeting
• Produce a manuscript for publication
• Accurately code Pediatric Urology work for reimbursement

During the clinical year the Pediatric Urology Fellows will develop these competencies according to the six ACGME competencies.

Specific Goals and Objectives — Year 2

Goals

The aim of the research year is to prepare the fellow for a career either in Academic or Private Practice in Pediatric Urology. We are concentrating on producing ethically and morally considerate doctors who have excellent clinical skills and experience in their chosen field.

Objectives

The fellow will be on a twelve-month rotation at Children’s Hospital Colorado. The fellow will be mainly involved in research and the fellow will have one day of clinical work.  By the end of this year the fellow will be able to:

• Design a specific laboratory based research project, and/or Design a clinical research project
• Collect and correctly analyze data from a research presentation
• Present using Power point at least one project at Grand
• Rounds
• Present using Power point one project at a National Meeting.
• Produce and submit a manuscript for publication
• To transition into an independent practioner
  

The learning objectives for the Research Year are:

• To develop a research question
• To design a research study
• To complete a research study
• To present the study in a scientific manner

During the clinical section of the research year, the Pediatric Urology Fellows will develop these competencies according to the six ACGME competencies.