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Children's Memorial Health Institute (IPCZD), Department of Paediatric Urology
Warsaw, Poland
European paediatric urology training toward FEAPU at the Children's Memorial Health Institute in Warsaw, certified since 2009 and covering all fields of paediatric urology. The department is also accredited for Polish paediatric urology specialty training.
LengthAt least 2 years (ESPU training standard)
ESPU/EBPU certified paediatric urology training programme (since January 2009)Accredited for Polish paediatric urology specialization training
What stands out
- The hospital reports it is the only centre in Poland accredited for European paediatric urology training toward FEAPU
- One-stage reconstruction of bladder neck, urethra and penis in exstrophy-epispadias, a technique developed in the department
- One-stage vaginal, clitoral and labial reconstruction in infants with DSD, plus persistent cloaca reconstruction
- Hosts CMKP postgraduate courses and individual training for surgeons from abroad, including England, Norway, Sweden and Turkey
- Program leads
- Piotr Gastoł, Karina Felberg
- Apply through
- Direct application
- Focus
- Paediatric urology with neonatal surgery, obstructive uropathy, exstrophy-epispadias, urogenital sinus and cloaca, DSD; accredited for European paediatric urology training leading to FEAPU
Training
- Structure
- 2-year fellowship training schedule, as ESPU requires of certified programmes
- Research
- Trainees take part in clinical research and should prepare at least one publication before the exam
- Case numbers
- Department, 2008: 977 operations and endoscopies, 820 urodynamic studies, 5,152 outpatient visits
- Hospital
- Children's Memorial Health Institute (IPCZD), Warsaw: ward, urology outpatient clinic, endoscopy, urodynamics and urotherapy units
- Faculty
- Kinga Kowalczyk, Lidia Skobejko-Włodarska