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SMILE: sustaining medical education in a lockdown environment

3 February 2021 | John Pascoe | 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...

Homo digitalis during COVID-19?

8 November 2021 | Arun K Sharma | URO - Covid-19, URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Neurourology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection, URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Core Urology, URO - Technology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all aspects of our lives. We have seen huge changes in the health service, medical practice and hospital working. Many urology meetings – national and international – were cancelled and seminars and courses have become...

My UK reconstructive urology fellowship experience

8 November 2021 | Paul Davis, Mohammed Belal, Rowland Rees | URO - Andrology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology

Surgical training is a long and hard pathway. Having completed medical school, I undertook my internship at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. The Alfred Hospital is a leading tertiary teaching hospital in Australia’s second largest city. Prior to commencing my...

Bladder cancer diagnosis and follow up: A new proven urinary biomarker to support the post COVID-19 recovery phase

7 September 2020

Since lockdown began most urologists have been following the advice of BAUS Oncology, to minimise the risk of exposure of patients and staff to potential COVID-19 infection: the result is an increasing backlog of patients requiring tests to determine if...

Remote working: what can health professionals learn from business?

5 February 2021 | Laura Waldron, Vaibhav Modgil, Ben R Grey, Ian Pearce | URO - Core Urology, URO - Technology

Remote working has been widely used in business for many years but before COVID-19, this was not the case within healthcare settings. This article seeks to review the advantages, challenges and solutions which users of remote working in business have...

How the COVID pandemic has shaped ongoing service delivery at ERIC, The Children’s Bowel & Bladder Charity

6 January 2023 | URO - Core Urology, URO - Paediatric Urology

- CHARITY FOCUS - Like many organisations and charities, COVID-19 generated a rapid period of adaptation and diversification for ERIC, The Children’s Bowel and Bladder Charity. Their Head of Communications, Alina Lynden, explains what this meant for the organisation and...

Establishing a new TPPBx service during the COVID-19 pandemic

6 November 2020 | Edwin Michael Chau, May Caber, Peter Acher | URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology

COVID-19 had a major impact on our hospital services from early in the pandemic, with almost three times as many patients being ventilated compared to the normal ITU capacity at the beginning of April. During the build-up to this point,...

Fertility Network UK: raising awareness of male infertility

1 July 2022 | URO - Andrology

Fertility Network UK are reaching out to clinicians in the urology field to raise awareness of the need to support men as the diagnosis of infertility on their emotional wellbeing and mental health can be devastating. This lack of support...

Online urology teaching

4 September 2020 | Ivo Dukic | URO - Technology

The COVID-19 crisis continues to disrupt our traditional models of teaching. Urological emergencies account for 20% of all acute surgical admissions and 5-10% of general practitioner visits [1]. Currently in the UK, undergraduate teaching on urology is not compulsory. Fewer...

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