PediatricInternational
General University Hospital (VFN) and 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Department of Urology, Paediatric Urology
Prague, Czech Republic
ESPU-certified paediatric urology training at the VFN and Charles University Department of Urology. Its children's unit treats patients aged 0 to 18 with reconstructive, laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery, urodynamics and stone treatment, with referrals from across Czechia and from Slovakia.
Length2 years
ESPU certified training programme (since January 2008)
What stands out
- 20-bed paediatric urology ward including 4 intensive care beds for children and adolescents
- Video-urodynamics and biofeedback rehabilitation for voiding dysfunction
- Bladder exstrophy reconstruction and female genital reconstruction (genitoplasty, clitoroplasty)
- Paediatric stone care with ESWL, ureteroscopy and percutaneous extraction
- Program lead
- Josef Sedláček
- Apply through
- Direct application
- Focus
- Two-year programme: 15 months paediatric urology plus rotations (paediatric nephrology, transplant at Motol, other paediatric specialties); one peer-reviewed publication before the certification exam
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Training
- Structure
- National programme, minimum 18 months: 15 months paediatric urology; for urologists, 2 months paediatric surgery, half a month paediatric nephrology and half a month paediatric intensive care
- Research
- The department has doctoral (PhD) students; a 2025 PhD studied infant minipuberty and undescended testis
- Case numbers
- National programme minimum: 200 procedures on children per trainee
- including 60 external genital operations and 30 endoscopies
- Hospital
- General University Hospital in Prague (VFN), Department of Urology, Ke Karlovu 6
- Faculty
- Radim Kocvara, Zdenek Dite, Marcel Drlik, Zuzana Jiraskova, Klara Knotkova, Petra Novakova, Zuzana Vavrova
Requirements (1)
- One peer-reviewed publication before applying for final certification exam