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Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program - Urology <>

Step 1 cut-off 75
Step 2 CK cut-off: 75
Step 2 CS required: N
ECFMG Required: N
Graduated:
US Clinical Experience:
Recommendation Letters required: 3

Program Details *:

Program Type: University-based
Speciality: Urology
Participates in SF Match: No
Interview Period: 11/01 -- 12/15
Interviews conducted: 42
Total Faculty: 15 Physicians, 4 Non-physicians
Faculty to positions: 1.8 to 1
Accredited Length: 4
Average Duty Hours: 60
Preliminary: No

Candidate Residency Status *: Citizens, Green card, EAD, J visa
IMG Friendly: No
IMG's in the program: 0 %

General Review *:

About the Hospital:

State-of-the-art medical technology, a wide scope of patient populations, and the opportunity to pursue research, coupled with the expertise of the MCW faculty, provide a solid foundation for a career as a physician in any medical specialty or subspecialty. Through the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, Inc. (MCWAH), the College and its affiliated institutions have combined their extensive and varied resources to provide the elements necessary for a broad spectrum of graduate medical education programs.

Presently, MCWAH offers 83 residency and fellowship programs. Each program is supervised by a program director who is a full-time faculty member of the Medical College. Most of the residents and fellows rotate through two or three of the Medical College's 14 affiliated institutions. All receive comprehensive training that prepares them for board certification in the specialty or subspecialty of their choice.

MCWAH has nearly 650 residents and 80 fellows in its graduate training programs. It offers 140 first-year residency positions in 25 disciplines. The residency positions are filled through the National Residency Matching Program and other specialty matching programs with graduates from medical schools accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, or graduates who are certified by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates. All MCWAH residency programs are fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Educational experiences for housestaff in every MCWAH program are enhanced further by contacts with faculty and housestaff in other specialty areas. Clinical fellowships at the College are open to physicians who have completed their basic residency training. Fellowship positions are available in 53 subspecialties.

About the Urology Department:

The Department of Urology at the Medical College of Wisconsin is dedicated to the classic academic missions of clinical care, teaching, and research. With an emphasis on clinical care, the department provides state of the art medical and surgical care for all facets of adult and pediatric urology. Ranked among the top 50 Urology programs in the country by News World Report in 1992 and 1993, the department offers fellowship trained physicians with specialty expertise in care across a spectrum of urologic disease processes. The clinical staff of the department also includes many urologists identified as Best Doctors in Milwaukee and Best Doctors in America. Our adult specialties include: benign and malignant diseases of the prostate, female urology and incontinence, voiding dysfunction, reconstructive urology, sexual dysfunction, infertility, stone disease, minimally invasive surgical approaches to urologic disease, and urologic cancer care.

Specialists in the Pediatric section have focused their practice exclusively in the care of children. Their areas of individual expertise include: congenital abnormality of the urinary tract, voiding dysfunction and neurogenic bladder, and minimally invasive/laparoscopic approaches to pediatric issues.

The Department's teaching and research activities are designed to both complement and support our clinical service mission. Our ACGME accredited residency program ensures that future generations will have access to qualified urologic specialists. Continuing medical education activities are designed to keep practicing community Urologists informed of the latest advances in urologic patient care.

Finally, our research program encompassing both clinical and basic research takes a disease focused, translational, approach to our research activities. The clinical research program is designed to afford patients in Southeastern Wisconsin access to experimental therapies otherwise not available in their community. Basic research activities are designed to provide newer and more effective approaches to disease management for patients with urologic problems.

In summary, the Department of Urology at the Medical College of Wisconsin represents a unique resource for Southeastern Wisconsin. State of the Art clinical care, coupled with medical education and research, provide both patients and physicians access to world class urologic care.

The Chairman's Message:

While the above announcement is a bit "tongue in cheek," the administrative sanctioning of a department within an academic medical center is in many ways analogous to a birth of a child. For those of us involved it has been an exciting and truly life altering event. It has come to pass as a consequence of the tremendous efforts of the faculty, staff, and residents of the former Division of Urology. While the gestational period was a protracted one (many years as a division of the Department of Surgery) I believe the end product is something all involved can be proud of.

While much anticipated, and extensively prepared for, much like the birth of a child no amount of pre-planning can actually prepare you for what follows the event. As much an ordeal as the delivery may be, the real work begins when the child arrives home. It is those new and unfamiliar responsibilities which I'll use to justify the fact that this announcement is in fact ten months post-partum.

We are now actively engaged in the process of "department rearing." As any parent will understand the nurturing process is both complex and challenging but at the same time extremely rewarding. Successful development requires much more than the basics of nutrition and hygiene. Interpersonal bonding, language development, and environmental stimulation are child development processes which can be viewed as having a parallel in the world of academic medicine. Moreover, as with child development the needs of the new entity are constantly changing and require continued reassessment, adaptation, and continued energy input.

Labor? Yes, but in some respects a labor of love. Awed by the promise and potential of our new organization, the team of faculty, residents, and staff have been reinvigorated in their effort to seeing this child develop its full potential. The combination of good genes together with the positive growth environment provided by our enterprise partners at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, and the Milwaukee Veterans Affairs Medical Center serve to justify personal belief of the unlimited potential of this new organization. I am both delighted and humbled to have had the opportunity to participate in this process and look forward with great anticipation to working to foster the realization of its true potential.

William See, MD

Pediatric Urology Fellowship Program

This is a new fellowship program at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin. The Children's Hospital of Wisconsin has been rated as #3 nationwide by Child Magazine. Upon completion of the 2 year program, the successful candidate would have met the ACGME requirements for the fellowship and completed a Masters in Epidemiology. The Masters program in epidemiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin is an integral part of many fellowship programs and is geared to prepare clinicians for academic careers. Consideration will be given to candidates interested in the one year clinical fellowship.

The first year is designed to maximize exposure to a high volume of diverse urologic diseases in newborns, infants and children, representing all of the essential areas in contemporary pediatric urology. The core faculty of 3 full time pediatric urologists is complemented by faculty in urology, pediatric surgery, neonatology, cardiovascular and plastic surgery, orthopedics, endocrinology and nephrology. Many of these premier programs train fellows. The curriculum includes exposure to and progressive responsibility for a large volume of common as well as complex problems with pediatric urologic diseases. Included also is a series of didactic seminars that address the pathophysiology, and relevant basic and evidence-based clinical principles. In addition, didactic courses in epidemiology, statistics and principles of clinical research are incorporated into the curriculum. Each component of the curriculum has an identified faculty member with principal responsibility and interest. Thus, the first year is primarily organized to fulfill the ACGME requirements for the fellowship. During the second year, the successful candidate is given an appointment in the department of urology at the instructor level. It is anticipated that the candidate will complete their masters by the end of the second year while attending at the Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. Sufficient protected time is allowed for the completion of the requirements for the masters.