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Figure 1 app

1 July 2016 | | URO - Technology
Figure 1 is an app that enables the sharing of medical images to aid learning. In essence, Figure 1 is an Instagram for healthcare. It was launched in 2013 and now connects a network of up to one million healthcare...

BJUI Knowledge

1 July 2021 | | URO - Core Urology
BJUI Knowledge is an online educational platform for urologists. It enables e-learning and provides a record of continuing professional development (CPD). Access to the portal for e-learning and CPD is available online through the website (link below) or an accompanying...

USANZ Trainee Week 2022 – a trip down under

11 July 2023 | | URO - Core Urology
The BAUS Section of Trainees (BSoT) opened applications for two senior UK urology trainees to be sponsored to attend the annual Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand (USANZ) Trainee Week, in Melbourne. The week is held in November each...

Movember addresses sexual health needs in prostate cancer patients

6 December 2022 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
When Travis Garone and Luke Slattery met up in the Gypsy Bar in Melbourne for a quiet beer back in 2003 and came up with the idea for Movember, they could not have imagined what it would become and the...

Millions of women in their 40s are SUFFERING with bladder leakage

6 September 2019 | Research & Development
Two thirds of women over 40 are currently SUFFERING with bladder leakage – with many feeling EMBARRASSED and DEPRESSED as a direct result, a study found. The condition, which can be caused by childbirth and often develops as women get older, is believed to affect MILLIONS of females - of all ages.

Scalpels and stunts: reflections from an academic trainee and international-level athlete

4 March 2026 | | URO - Core Urology
When people find out I’m a urology registrar, they usually nod politely or giggle for obvious reasons. When they find out I’m also a competitive cheerleader, they tend to blink, pause, and then ask: “Wait, like pom-poms and high kicks?”...

Quality Improvement – how to get involved?

1 November 2018 | | URO - Core Urology
The General Medical Council (GMC) requires all trainee doctors to carry out Quality Improvement (QI) as part of our annual appraisal process [1]. Exactly what QI projects are and how to get involved is less widely understood. Traditionally surgical trainees...

Training to be a urologist: how risky is it?

1 May 2018 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Infection, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatrics, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology, URO - Technology
The NHS and urology face challenging times in trying to provide quality patient care efficiently and economically. Urology trainees are experiencing conflicting pressures with a new contract, a challenging on-call system and changing training requirements in an overstretched, centralised service...

Patient decision aids in the management of stress urinary incontinence

9 March 2020 | | 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...

Management of urological issues following genital gender affirmation surgery for individuals assigned female at birth

12 September 2023 | | URO - Andrology
Gender incongruence arises when there is a mismatch between an individual’s gender identity and their sex assigned at birth. Genital gender affirmation surgery (GAS) is the final step of transition for transgender and non-binary individuals who experience gender incongruence. This...

Moving pictures

1 July 2018 | | URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). Those of you who occasionally wander (virtually of course) into the online Museum...

Thomas Molyneux and the lost bodkin

1 January 2019 | | URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In an earlier article we looked at one of the medals in the...