Urology is an exciting specialty which offers a mixture of medical and surgical practices. The clerkship includes time working with faculty members and residents, both in the out-patient clinical setting, wards, and operating rooms. A Chief Resident and a first year resident staff the academic service and the private service is staffed by an intermediate year resident. Dr. McVary is Chief of the VA and this service is staffed by Chief Residents and a first year resident. An optional elective in pediatric urology is available to those students who choose the two-week Urology rotation.
Clinic experience is preferred to surgery.
This elective is encouraged but not required. Usually this can be accomplished in one quarter. Two quarters general medicine and specialty medicine including endocrinology and metabolism, immunology, cardiology, infectious disease, nephrology or applied clinical pharmacology. Alternatives to these suggestions include ambulatory medicine, pathology, radiology, pediatrics, and pediatric surgery. Serious consideration should be given to an individual study effort for 1 quarter.