Six months of the four-year Urology Residency Program are spent in the research program. Residents are encouraged to pursue valid laboratory and clinical research projects. A weekly research coordination meeting provides supervision and guidance of the various ongoing projects. Manuscripts generated are submitted to various regional and national meetings and usually are accepted for presentation.
Residents attend and present their work on a regular basis at such meetings.
This staff perform urine cultures and sensitivities on a custom basis for the Urology faculty. In a long-term study, metabolic profiles on patients with renal calculi are performed and stone content is analyzed. The technicians often participate in urologic surgical studies carried out in the Surgery Research Laboratories on dogs, monkeys, etc. The Department is authorized to conduct several clinical research projects involving medications that are not yet on the market and have not received FDA approval. Inc. All rights reserved.