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Introduction to virtual healthcare job interviews

17 March 2021 | | 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,...

The master’s degree in urology – a personal perspective

1 November 2015 | | URO - Core Urology
I have recently completed a master’s degree in urology, based jointly with the University of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. I began the course three months after commencing ST3 in urology. I had begun exploring the...

Reflections on 20 years as an Army Reserve doctor: live a life less ordinary

1 July 2015 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Infection, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Technology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology
It seems a very short time ago that my predecessor recruited me into my regiment as a surgical senior house officer during a varicose vein operation in a cottage hospital in Stroud, informing me that I would be only the...

Can the latest patient decision aid help OAB patients?

8 January 2025 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
OAB Answers is a patient decision aid co-authored by several European urologists and gynaecologists, and two patient advocates, to help patients understand and manage their overactive bladder (OAB). It is a 36-page document split into several clear sections, aiming to...
European Urology journal front cover.

PSA screening in limbo: how low should we go?

2 May 2025 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
One may wonder how the management of prostate cancer could have evolved differently if it had followed a path similar to breast cancer. In breast cancer, early detection in the 1970s relied heavily on imaging because no reliable circulating biomarker...

New drug hope for prostate cancer patients

16 January 2025
• Hormone therapy is used to slow the progression of advanced prostate cancer, but cancers often develop resistance and continue to grow.• Research reveals that patients with higher levels of heat shock proteins have worse outcomes.• Targeting these proteins with...

SMILE: sustaining medical education in a lockdown environment

3 February 2021 | | URO - Core Urology
2020 posed challenges to medical education like never seen before. In an effort to contain and slow the spread of coronavirus all UK medical schools ceased or reduced face-to-face contact. This sudden, and for many, unexpected change resulted in pressures...

The conservative assessment and treatment of mixed urinary and anal incontinence in women: a multidisciplinary approach

1 September 2019 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Neurourology
Mixed urinary incontinence Urinary incontinence (UI) is considered to be a highly prevalent condition; however, depending upon the definitions used, actual reported prevalence rates can vary significantly. The International Consultation on Incontinence (ICI) review [1], reported unadjusted prevalence estimates for...

A ‘survival guide’ to an ST3 year in urology

1 January 2015 | | URO - Core Urology
Following success in national selection, it soon dawns on the successful candidate that entry into higher surgical training (HST) requires more than a little clinical knowledge. The role requires administrative and organisational skills not hitherto called upon. This additional skill...

Establishing the Southwest Catheter Skills Course – a closed loop quality improvement project

18 July 2024 | | 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...

Robotic Urology Fellowship at UCLH

1 May 2016 | | URO - Core Urology
In November 2014, approaching my final year of training (ST7) in the West of Scotland (WoS) and just recently armed with my FRCS (Urol), I was at a crossroad in my clinical career. I was keen to pursue a consultant...

‘No Deal’ Brexit – how might it impact urological practice in the UK?

1 September 2018 |
On 29 March 2017, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, formally starting the two-year period for talks with the European Union (EU) in which to reach a...