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Mentorship and its role in surgical training

6 November 2020 | Harry Spiers | URO - Core Urology

Is there a principle which could help address multiple challenges in surgical training? One which has potential to improve recruitment and retention of staff to our specialty, quality of patient care and surgeon morale? The author discusses the past present...

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 | 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...

Introduction to virtual healthcare job interviews

17 March 2021 | Matthew J Wu, Elliott D Kozin | 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,...

Priapism

7 January 2021 | Kate McMurrugh (Dr), Torath Ameen, Rozh Jalil | URO - Andrology

Priapism is defined as an abnormally persistent erection lasting greater than four hours, not associated with sexual desire [1]. Although relatively uncommon with an incidence of 1.5 per 100,000 [2], priapism has a risk of complications which can have a...

Ureteric strictures

1 May 2014 | Laila Cunin, Salil Umranikar, Nick Rukin | URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology

Case 1 What is this investigation? What are the findings of this investigation? What are the causes for this? What are the treatment options? Case 2 Image 1. Image 2. What do these X-Ray KUB films show? What are the...

History of prostate biopsy – part 2

1 September 2018 | Shiv Kumar Pandian, Mohamed Hammadeh, Ben Challacombe, Oussama Elhage, Rick Popert, Sanjeev Madaan | URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology

For Part 1 of this topic is available here. The major limitations of the transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsy (PBx) protocols are the risk of profound sepsis and the risk of persistently significant false negative rates, related to the...

Urologic complications of radiotherapy

1 July 2014 | Steve McCombie, Dickon Hayne, Nick Rukin | URO - Urologic Oncology

Case 1 1. What machine is seen in the picture? 2. What is the standard dose schedule for radiotherapy for prostate cancer? 3. What are the complications of radiotherapy? Case 2 1. How does haemorrhagic cystitis develop? 2. What are...

Immunotherapy in renal cancer

1 May 2019 | Conor McCann, Edward Mains, Alexander Laird | URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Urologic Oncology

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the sixth most common solid organ cancer in the UK. In 2018, there were 403,262 people diagnosed worldwide with the disease (2.2% of all cancer cases), and it accounted for 175,098 deaths in total (1.8%...

Pelvic floor imaging – a brief synopsis

1 August 2016 | Ammad Farooq | URO - Uroradiology

Background Pelvic floor imaging is an important part of both gastrointestinal and functional urology / urogynaecological departments. Symptoms such as obstructive defecation, incontinence and sphincter complex disorders have a significant impact on patient lifestyle and physical / mental well-being [1,2]....

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