EndourologyCombinedInternational
Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College
New Delhi, India
Two-year endourology fellowship in the Department of Urology and Renal Transplant at VMMC and Safdarjung Hospital, combining clinical and research work across laser endourology, 3D/2D laparoscopy, uro-oncology, SWL, reconstruction and kidney transplant.
Length2 years
Endourological Society
What stands out
- National laparoscopic training program with dry, wet and cadaveric labs, plus a laparoscopy/robotics simulator lab
- Kidney transplant exposure including laparoscopic donor nephrectomy
- Holmium and GreenLight lasers; the separate one-year robotics fellowship uses the da Vinci Xi
- Program lead
- Anup Kumar
- Apply through
- Endourological Society Match
- Focus
- Combined endourology + laparoscopic/robotic: holmium and green light lasers, 3-D/2-D laparoscopy, uro-oncology, ESWL, reconstruction, renal transplantation
Training
- Structure
- Two years combining clinical training and research; a separate one-year Advanced Robotics and Laparoscopy fellowship is also offered
- Research
- Research is built into the two-year program; publications and presentations at national meetings and the WCE are part of the curriculum
- Case numbers
- Department in 2024: 3,067 major surgeries and more than 14,204 minor procedures
- Hospital
- Safdarjung Hospital and Vardhman Mahavir Medical College (Super Speciality Block), New Delhi
- Faculty
- Pawan Vasudeva, Siddharth Yadav, Ruchi Mittal, Rohan Nautiyal, Abhishek Johari