EndourologyCombinedInternational
King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Two-year fellowship in the Division of Urology at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, in two streams: Endo/Stone, emphasising endourology and minimally invasive stone treatment, or combined Endo/Stone plus Lap/Robotic with laparoscopic and robotic oncologic and reconstructive surgery.
Length2 years
Endourological Society listed program; Endo/Stone graduates meet its certification requirements
What stands out
- Choice of two 2-year streams: Endo/Stone, or combined Endo/Stone with Lap/Robotic
- Combined stream includes da Vinci prostatectomy, cystectomy with ileal bladder replacement and robotic urinary tract reconstruction
- Combined stream kidney surgery extends to renal cancer with vena cava tumour thrombectomy
- Combined stream endourology covers PCNL, RIRS, TURP, HoLEP and TURBT
- Program leads
- Saeed Bin Hamri, Ahmed Alaskar, Naser Albogami, Bader Alsaikhan
- Apply through
- Endourological Society Match
- Focus
- Combined endourology + laparoscopic/robotic: two 2-year streams (endo/stone: PCNL, URS/RIRS, endoscopic BPH; combined: plus laparoscopic/robotic prostatectomy, cystectomy, partial nephrectomy, reconstruction), with research
Training
- Structure
- Endo/Stone stream: months 1 to 6 research, months 7 to 12 add one OR day a week; year 2 clinical with one research day a week
- Research
- Division research team covers all urologic subspecialties; clinical and basic science projects, with fellow-chosen and faculty-proposed topics
- Case numbers
- Endo/Stone fellow, year 2 minimum: 60 PCNL, 120 URS and/or RIRS, 60 endoscopic BPH procedures
- Division: about 4,000 DCOR and main OR procedures per year
- Yearly clinical volume: PCNL over 65, semi-rigid URS 150, flexible URS 400, lap/robotic 100
- Yearly clinical volume: TURP 250, TURBT 200
- Hospital
- King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh
- Faculty
- Yahia Ghazwai, Abdulaziz Alathel, Yasser Noureldin