EndourologyCombinedCanada
University of Toronto (St. Michael's Hospital)
Toronto, ON
Two-year University of Toronto fellowship combining endourology and minimally invasive surgery: medical stone management, shock wave lithotripsy, own percutaneous access, and laparoscopic and robotic kidney, adrenal and prostate surgery, plus renal transplant involvement.
Length2 years
Endourological Society
What stands out
- Clinics in the St. Michael's Kidney Stone Centre, one of 3 regional SWL referral centres in Ontario
- Work with the Provincial Kidney Stone Prevention Clinic on medical stone management
- Fellows join living donor and deceased donor renal transplant programs
- A PhD scientist can supervise projects in biomaterials, infection and metabolic stone disease
- Program lead
- Kenneth Pace
- Apply through
- Endourological Society Match
- Focus
- Combined: one stone/endourology year (PCNL with own access, ureteroscopy, SWL) and one laparoscopic/robotic year, plus renal transplant exposure and clinical research
- Eligibility
- Open to Canadian-trained applicantsNo USMLE neededCanadian program (no US visa needed)
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Training
- Structure
- One stone and endourology year and one laparoscopy and robotics year, also described as one mainly clinical year and one mainly research year
- Research
- SWL outcome databases (about 2,500 patients a year); bench space and animal vivarium; MSc in clinical epidemiology; concurrent MSc or PhD can be discussed
- Case numbers
- About 100 percutaneous and 250 ureteroscopic procedures per year
- SWL: 50 to 100 cases per year, out of about 2,500 treatments per year
- About 100 to 120 laparoscopic and 50 robotic procedures per year
- 10 to 20 percutaneous renal cryotherapy cases per year (2024)
- Hospitals
- St. Michael's Hospital · Toronto General Hospital
- Faculty
- Jason Y. Lee, Michael Ordon, Monica Farcas
Requirements (1)
- Completed a recognized 5 or 6 year urology residency with appropriate certification