EndourologyStoneInternational
AZ Klina Stone Centre
Brasschaat, Belgium
One-year fellowship at AZ Klina, Brasschaat, in stone disease and BPH: SWL, flexible ureteroscopy including UTUC, percutaneous access, PCNL with ECIRS, HoLEP, outpatient metabolic stone workup and medical BPH care, plus research time.
Length1 year
SalaryNo salary provided; fellows are encouraged to seek AUA or EUSP scholarship funding
Endourological Society approvedCertified EUSP host centre for stone disease (with European Board of Urology)EBU recognised European training centre for kidney stone treatment
What stands out
- Offers MiLEP as well as HoLEP; operating room has high-power holmium YAG and thulium fiber lasers
- Multidisciplinary endourology conferences held with nephrologists and dietitians
- Program lead
- Vincent De Coninck
- Apply through
- Endourological Society Match
- Focus
- Endourology/stone: SWL, flexible ureteroscopy including UTUC, percutaneous renal access, PCNL/ECIRS, HoLEP, metabolic stone clinic, research
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Training
- Structure
- Operating room and outpatient clinic training, with the remaining time for research
- Research
- Clinical and basic endourology research; the unit runs its own studies and partners with international centres
- Case numbers
- About 200 SWL procedures per year
- 500 to 650 ureteroscopies per year
- About 50 PCNL per year
- 1 to 5 robot-assisted laparoscopic stone procedures per year
- 50 to 100 HoLEP per year
- Hospital
- AZ Klina, Brasschaat (Antwerp), Belgium
Requirements (2)
- Completed an accredited urology residency program
- Self-funded: no salary; fellows encouraged to apply for AUA or EUSP scholarship funding