Residents are responsible for giving teaching sessions to physician and nursing groups requesting them. One senior medical student may elect to take Urology at UMMS or the VA for 1 month. Jul-Nov, when residency applications are active. The teaching takes place in the clinic, OR, on the wards, or in small sit-down discussion sessions. There are scheduled lectures for the students with attendings, and the final surgery exam has questions from these lectures.
Students take night call every third night with the resident.
The URO-4 resident is responsible for giving an initial grade to the medical students, as well as an initial evaluation of the family practice resident. The attending reviews and approves these grades before submission. Nurses have a special interest in urodynamics. There are four cystoscopy rooms and six patient exam rooms. Residents see all outpatients first and decide on a plan of management after presenting the case to the URO-4 resident.