Out of Programme Experience
As an UK urology trainee, you may wish to spend a period of time abroad. This can be taken as an out-of-programme-experience (OOPE).
If you wish to take this option, you must seek approval from your Deanery and...
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As an UK urology trainee, you may wish to spend a period of time elsewhere. This can be taken as time out of programme for approved clinical training (OOPT), clinical experience (OOPE), research (OOPR) or a career break (OOPC).
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The original Oxford (Thames Valley) & Wessex regions amalgamated in 2009 to form the South Central region. But, for deanery purposes, the division between Wessex and Oxford has always been maintained. The former Oxford deanery, now named Thames...
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This is a retrospective audit to check operative documentation & to assess compliance with the recommendations that all patients undergoing a first tumour resection for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer should have muscle included in the biopsy...
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Training As A Parent
Training as a father
Jonathan Noel, former BSoT Chair and trainee in the London North Deanery, writes about combining training with fatherhood:
My wife and I have been blessed with a son when I was an ST3,...
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The Wessex & Oxford regions amalgamated in 2009 to form the South Central region but, for deanery purposes, the division has been maintained - the Oxford deanery has now reverted to its original name, Thames Valley. Wessex forms the southern...
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The BURST Research Collaborative is a trainee-led research group comprised primarily of urological registrars supported by Consultants, junior trainees and medical students. The aim of the collaborative is to produce high-impact, multi-centre audit...
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Evidence Based Interventions (EBI)
Implementation of urology clinical guidance
The EBI programme is an initiative led by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC) to improve the quality of care. The programme is supported by five...
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A list of subspecialty training slots compiled by the SAC
Subspecialty training is frequently undertaken in the final year of training. The directory below has been compiled by the SAC to enable trainees and trainers to identify suitable...
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WUS News & Alumni
Mr Neil Fenn, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Morriston Hospital Swansea, has been elected as the new Chair of the Welsh Urological Society, replacing Mr Pradeep Bose.
Meetings of the Society have now been re-organised (the...
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The Stamp
This stamp was issued in the United States of America from 1940. The face value is 2 cents. It is printed in rose carmine and was first issued in Jefferson GA on 8 April 1940. It was part of a series of famous Americans chosen by the...
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In 1865, the Dublin urologist, Francis Richard Cruise introduced an improved version of Desmoreaux's endoscope.
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Cruise also altered the lens system using a binocular device by dividing his lens apparatus into two...
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Shining a light into the bladder, so that its reflection allowed the interior to be visualised, was the very basis of the cystoscope.
Subsequent developments in the generation, focussing and amplification of light allowed the cystoscope to...
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From open implantation of radioactive implants, hazardous for patient & surgeon, to minimally-invasive bladder removal & targeted treatment
In 1895, Ludwig Rehn used a cystoscope to identify bladder cancer in 3 of 45 workers at a dye...
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Milo Ellik was a resident at the University of Iowa under Alcock. He was set the task of improving the design of existing evacuators so they could be used for extracting tissue, as well as stone fragments or prostate chippings (see below right),...
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Jean Casimir Félix Guyon (1831 – 1920) was born in Saint-Denis on the East African island of Reunion, a French overseas départment east of Madagascar, on 21 July 1831.
Images of Guyon through the years
These images are taken from the archive...
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Interstitial cystitis has been given many names over the years; the latest, and currently preferred term, is the "Bladder Pain Syndrome".
According to the late Tim Christmas’s excellent review on this subject (available in the Library), the...
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James Barlow Macalpine was born on 11th February 1882 in Accrington, the son of the wealthy colliery owner Sir George Macalpine. He was schooled at Mill Hill and then qualified in medicine from Manchester in 1907. He was House Surgeon at Manchester...
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Professor John Blandy was born in India; he trained in Oxford, at The London Hospital and at St Peter’s Hospital. He was one of the most influential forces in the popularisation of TURP in the UK.
John Blandy died on 23 July 2011, aged 83: see...
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(L)ight (A)mplification by the (S)timulated (E)mission of (R)adiation was originally proposed by Albert Einstein (pictured right) in 1917. However, it was not until 1960 that the first, visible, laser light was produced by Maimen, using a ruby...
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