Pediatric Urology

Students will be active participants and have the opportunity to evaluate patients in the Children’s outpatient urology clinic. 90% of the diagnoses in the clinic will be conditions that would be typically discovered, evaluated, and often treated in the primary physician’s office. Exposure will be provided in UTI management, obstructive uropathy, prenatal and postnatal hydronephrosis, voiding disorders, differentiating retractile and undescended testes, genital disorders, catheterization techniques and many other less common problems. 

OR time is optional for students interested in Primary Care careers (but still available). For students interested in Urology (and perhaps Pediatric Urology), OR time will be scheduled as part of a balanced experience with the outpatient clinic experience. The Pediatric Urology faculty performs all types of surgical procedures including routine surgery for undescended testis, complex repairs of hypospadias and other genital malformation, upper and lower urinary tract reconstruction, endoscopic stone surgery and Da Vinci assist robotic surgery. Students would be welcome to observe and/or scrub on cases as appropriate.

This course will fulfill the urology requirement, and can be elected in lieu of UROL 302. No night or weekend call. A presentation on a pediatric urology topic of the rotating student's choosing will be presented at the conclusion of the rotation. 

Faculty: Drs. H. Gil Rushton, Naida B. Kalloo, Hans G. Pohl, Mike H. Hsieh, Aaron Krill, Tanya D. Davis, Daniel Casella, and Rachel Selekman.