EndourologyCombinedInternational
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
Botucatu, Brazil
One-year fellowship in endourology and urologic laparoscopy at the Botucatu medical school hospital, open to Brazilian and foreign urologists and running since 2003. The fellow operates as surgeon or assistant and also covers emergency and outpatient urology.
Length1 year
Spots1 position per year
StartsJuly 1
Endourological Society
What stands out
- Only program in Brazil in the Endourological Society clinical fellowship listing
- Operative list includes donor nephrectomy, adrenalectomy, pyeloplasty, radical prostatectomy, PCNL and flexible ureteroscopy
- Skills training on inanimate models and experimental animals
- Program lead
- Oscar Eduardo Fugita
- Apply through
- Endourological Society Match
- Timeline
- Selection held at the start of each year (CV review and interview)
- Focus
- Combined: endourology and laparoscopy in the department's minimally invasive section
- Contact
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Training
- Structure
- Supervised operating time 2 to 3 times weekly, plus emergency and outpatient care and resident teaching
- Research
- Certification requires at least three completed scientific papers reviewed by the Endourological Society, plus a full case log
- Hospital
- Hospital das Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu (UNESP)
- Faculty
- Paulo R. Kawano, Hamilto A. Yamamoto, Rodrigo Guerra