Clerkships
The Department of Urology offers two elective clerkships for third to fourth-year medical students:
UROL 7200, Surgical Specialty: Urology
Urology 7200 provides the basic principles of urology you are likely to see and encounter in a general medical practice. Register for either a two- or four-week block in this rotation.
Adult urology training sites
If you elect adult urology for UROL 7200, you will spend time at the following training sites:
If you elect a two-week block for adult urology, you will select to train at one site. If you elect a four-week block, you will select two sites to train at.
Course Expectations
Assigned Readings
Smith’s General Urology (16th or 17th Edition) by Tanagho and McAninch:
Purchase Smith’s General Urology from the Biomedical Bookstore or access the necessary chapters online through the class Moodle site.
Additional readings are assigned for the pediatric urology rotation.
Video Lectures
View videotaped lectures on the CD provided or on the class Moodle website. You’re expected to watch all of the lectures before starting your rotation. They’ll provide you with information important for your understanding of the primary care management of urologic problems.
Grand Rounds & Conferences
While enrolled in Urology 7200, you are required to attend the Department of Urology Grand Rounds. This conference is held every Wednesday morning at 7 a.m. in Room 3-100 Mayo.
Following Grand Rounds, you are required to attend the medical student lecture from 8-10 a.m. in Mayo 4th Floor B426.
Final Exams
Urology Self-Assessment Exam for adult or pediatric urology track can be found in the BlackBag site under the Assessment tab on the left.
Evaluations
All evaluations – both student performance and hospital rotation(s) – will be completed online.
UROL 7500, Advanced Urologic Surgery
Our elective clerkship provides intense exposure to the specialty.
Your advanced four week rotation will take place at either the University of Minnesota Medical Center or the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. Both sites will expose you to operative and non-operative management of all major urologic diseases, including:
- Oncology
- Male and female voiding dysfunction
- Male sexual dysfunction
- Stone disease
Through this clerkship, you function as an active, integral member of our healthcare team as you:
- Have intern-like inpatient management responsibilities
- Are exposed to multiple minimally invasive techniques such as robotic and laparoscopic surgery
- Participate in weekly conferences
- Actively participate in operating room activities, including laparoscopic surgical techniques
- Learn and demonstrate some basic urologic surgical techniques and approaches
Course Objectives
Course Objectives
- Demonstrate understanding of the natural history, diagnosis and treatment of the major urologic diseases.
- Augment current understanding of abdominal, retroperitoneal and pelvic anatomy by participation in urologic operative procedures.
- Appreciate and begin to acquire the fundamental surgical skill set that urology offers. These include laparoscopic, endoscopic and open incisional techniques. This may be augmented with simulation exercises.
Common Problems & Diseases
Your advanced three-week rotation will expose you to a wide variety of urology problems and procedures. The course provides you ample exposure to inpatient and outpatient, day-to-day management of urology patients. You do this by participating with either our team of five active urology attendings at the VA, or our team of nine active urology attendings at UMMC.
Recommended Text & Readings
Smith's General Urology. Edited by Emil Tanagho and Jack W. McAninch. 16th Edition. Lange Medical Books/McGraw Hill. 2003. Chapters 1, 4, 6, 9, 18-25.
Team Composition
You will work under the supervision of a senior and a junior urology resident as well as the urology attendings at your training site.
You will have an essential, close working relationship with your residents and the opportunity to develop collegial relationships with the attending faculty. You’ll be encouraged to take on inpatient assignments and responsibilities.
Course Schedule
University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview
On the Friday before your rotation begins, call 612-273-3000 and ask for the Urology Junior Resident on-call to be paged. He/she will set a time and place for you to meet the morning on the first day of your rotation before morning inpatient rounds.
VA Medical Center
At least two weeks prior to your rotation, contact Mary Beth (Betsy) Johnson by email at mary.johnson19@va.gov to provide her with your social security number.
At 7:30 a.m. on the first day of your rotation, report to the Urology Office (2V-141) to sign in. Here you’ll pick up the form you need to get your ID and scrubs. You will read and sign the VA’s HIPPA agreement before going into the operating room or seeing patients in the clinic.
Contact
Please contact the Education Administrator, Jasmine Jackson, with any questions.
jacks589@umn.edu
612-626-9623