EndourologyCombinedUnited States
University of California, Irvine
Orange, CA
Two-year combined endourology and minimally invasive surgery fellowship aimed at academic careers: a mostly laboratory first year (bench, animal and translational work plus lab leadership), then a mostly clinical year in robotics, laparoscopy, PCNL, ureteroscopy and HoLEP.
Length2 years
Salary$78,900 per year; fellows are UC Irvine employees with benefits
Endourological Society approved
What stands out
- Optional master's curriculum in Biomedical and Clinical Translational Science
- Leadership training offered through the UCI Merage School of Business
- Surgical Education Center lab: survival and non-survival suites, vivarium, fresh tissue lab and a dedicated lab da Vinci Si
- Fellow acts as medical director of the endourology lab and runs a weekly half-day clinic as clinical instructor
- Program leads
- Ralph V. Clayman, Jaime Landman
- Apply through
- Endourological Society Match
- Focus
- Combined endourology + laparoscopic/robotic: robotics, laparoscopy, percutaneous surgery, ureteroscopy, HoLEP, translational research, grant and manuscript training
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE: not statedVisa: not stated
- Contact
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Training
- Structure
- Year 1: about 70% laboratory/research and 30% clinical; Year 2: about 70% clinical and 30% research; faculty call roughly 1 in 6 weeks
- Research
- Lab year with bench and animal studies, IRB/IACUC and grant writing; 5 to 10 papers typical
- Case numbers
- Over 200 robotic cases per year by the MIS faculty (department)
- Over 250 HoLEP procedures per year by Das
- Hospitals
- UC Irvine Douglas Hospital · Irvine Medical Campus (UC Irvine) · Long Beach VA Hospital
- Faculty
- Roshan M. Patel, Akhil K. Das, Pengbo Jiang, Sohrab Ali, Thomas E. Ahlering, Edward Uchio, Michael A. Daneshvar, Greg Gin
Requirements (2)
- Board eligible or diplomate of the American Board of Urology, or recently passed FLEX with application for urology board eligibility
- Valid California medical license before start