EndourologyCombinedInternational
Changhai Hospital
Shanghai, China
Two-year program with two streams, laparoscopy and robotics (oncologic and reconstructive) or endourology and stone disease, progressing from lectures to in vitro models, animal work and case observation.
Length2 years
Endourological Society listed program
What stands out
- On-site da Vinci technical training centre; robotics fellows can earn a da Vinci certificate
- Stone stream teaches Sun's tip-flexible semi-rigid ureterorenoscopy, a technique first used at this centre
- Quarterly certified training course on minimally invasive stone treatment
- Hospital clinical skills centre of over 20,000 m2 runs training from in vitro to in vivo
- Program lead
- Xiaofeng Gao
- Apply through
- Endourological Society Match
- Focus
- Combined endourology + laparoscopic/robotic: rigid and flexible ureteroscopy, PCNL, laparoscopic and robotic oncologic and reconstructive surgery, research
Training
- Structure
- Separate 2-year streams: laparoscopy/robotics (directed by Yinghao Sun) and endourology/stone (directed by Xiaofeng Gao); applicants may apply to either or both
- Research
- Clinical and basic science projects using a basic research lab of over 500 m2 and a certified GCP drug trial platform; engineering and device testing possible
- Case numbers
- PCNL 517 per year (department)
- Flexible ureteroscopy 754 and ureteroscopy 340 per year (department)
- Laparoscopy 1,763 and SWL 614 per year (department)
- Robotic surgery 645 cases per year (department)
- TURBT 354 and TURP 200 per year (department)
- Hospital
- Changhai Hospital, Department of Urology, Shanghai
- Faculty
- Yinghao Sun, Bo Yang, Yonghan Peng, Ling Li, Ziyu Fang, Shaoxiong Ming