EndourologyCombinedInternational
Hospital Universitario "Dr. José Eleuterio González" (UANL)
Monterrey, Mexico
Two-year combined fellowship in robotic and laparoscopic surgery plus endourology for kidney stones and BPH, including prostate enucleation with several energy sources, based at a university hospital and a private medical centre in Monterrey.
Length2 years
What stands out
- One-month observership encouraged each year at University of São Paulo, Jefferson Hospital or Istituto Nazionale Tumori Regina Elena
- Mandatory weekly laparoscopic and robotic simulation, 4 to 5 hours per field, with progress recorded
- Prostate enucleation with both HoLEP and ThuFLEP; endourology includes PCNL and ECIRS
- Fellows help organize and give surgical support at the program's endourology and robotic surgery courses
- Program lead
- José Antonio Zapata González
- Apply through
- Endourological Society Match
- Focus
- Combined endourology + laparoscopic/robotic: PCNL, ECIRS, ureteroscopy, prostate enucleation (HoLEP, ThuFLEP), laparoscopic and robotic surgery at UANL and Hospital Angeles Valle Oriente, weekly simulation, research
Training
- Structure
- 2 years at two hospitals, with mandatory weekly laparoscopic and robotic simulation on a set schedule
- Research
- Graduation requires a manuscript in a peer-reviewed journal; weekly academic sessions and inter-fellow sessions; bench space and anatomy lab access
- Case numbers
- 2024 (program): endourology (PCNL, ECIRS, ureteroscopy) 124, laparoscopic 140, robotic 61, prostate enucleation 101 cases
- 2025 (both institutions): endourology 92, laparoscopic 115, robotic 72, HoLEP and ThuFLEP enucleation 83 cases
- Hospitals
- Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio González (UANL) · Hospital Angeles Valle Oriente (private centre, most robotic cases)
- Faculty
- Bernardo Rodolfo Rodríguez Delgado, Fred Alain Montelongo Rodríguez