Practice Patterns of Recently Fellowship-trained Reconstructive Urologists
| Autor: | Sean P. Elliott, William O. Brant, Bryan B. Voelzke, Bradley A. Erickson, Nejd F. Alsikafi, Thomas G. Smith, Joshua A. Broghammer, Christopher McClung, Jeremy B. Myers |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Urologic Neoplasms medicine.medical_specialty Scope of practice Urology media_common.quotation_subject Specialty Urogenital System Article Humans Medicine Fellowships and Scholarships Practice Patterns Physicians' Fellowship training media_common Medical education Practice patterns business.industry Endoscopy Surgery Feeling Education Medical Graduate Private practice Urologic Surgical Procedures Female business Postgraduate training Graduation |
| Zdroj: | Urology. 80:934-937 |
| ISSN: | 0090-4295 |
| Popis: | The past decade has seen significant changes in the training for all surgical residents.1 Residents are working fewer hours and spending less time in the operating rooms. Of the hours spent operating, a greater percentage of them are being focused on learning robotic and laparoscopic skills than ever before, especially in urology, as these are the skills often coveted by the private practice jobs being pursued by nearly 90% of graduates.2,3 This means that by default, less time will be spent during training performing complex open procedures. It is perhaps not surprising, that the decade has also seen an increase in fellowship training of all surgical subspecialties. Proposed reasons for this trend are many,4 but it has been postulated that with less operating room exposure, graduating residents are more commonly feeling they need more training before starting their careers.5 Until recently, few residents pursued formal postgraduate training in adult reconstructive urology, a specialty that performs many complex open procedures, but there are now 15 single-year positions available for postresidency training,6 prompting the Genitourinary Reconstructive Society to begin a formal matching process for reconstructive fellows beginning in the year 2013. As this fellowship becomes more formalized and learning objectives are outlined, it is important to better understand the scope of practice required of potential fellows upon fellowship graduation. The purpose of this study was to examine the early practice patterns of recently trained reconstructive fellows. We hypothesized that the practice patterns will vary widely depending on the respective fellows’ home institution, but that reconstructive procedures will make up a large percentage of their practice. Additionally, we hypothesized that with increased years in practice, the number and complexity of reconstructive cases will increase. |
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