Two months are spent at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to further extend the urologic oncology experience. Chief residents spend 12 months at Beth Israel. At the completion of the residency, each resident has participated in over 1,000 major operations. The Department of Urology's extensive teaching schedule includes daily radiology rounds, as well as special programs related to pathology, urologic oncology, female urology and infertility. Grand rounds, journal club, attending rounds and chief rounds are among the weekly departmental conferences.
Medical students taking fourth-year electives often rotate through Beth Israel's urology service.
House officers are encouraged to attend national, regional and local meetings. During the First year, two residents are sent to the annual basic science urology conference at the University of Virginia. Residents also routinely attend special programs of the New York Section of the AUA and the New York Academy of Medicine. They are encouraged to present research papers at national meetings and are supported and funded for their activities. The Department of Urology encourages both clinical and basic science research and has committed funding for both these pursuits.