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Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London Hospitals (BAPU GOSH-UCLH Paediatric Urology Fellowship)
London, United Kingdom
Joint GOSH and UCLH paediatric urology fellowship on the RCS England senior clinical fellowship register, approved by BAPU, with target competence levels for about 30 index operations from PUV resection and hypospadias repair to bladder augmentation and Mitrofanoff.
Length2 years
RCS England Senior Clinical Fellowship Scheme, BAPU approved December 2024 to November 2027ESPU/EBPU certified training programme (certified January 2010)
What stands out
- Bladder exstrophy and epispadias care at GOSH, one of two UK designated centres
- Six of the 24 months at UCLH, which has a dedicated urology team for ages 13 to 18 focused on reconstruction
- Urodynamics service with a Director of Urodynamics and several nurse specialists with a urodynamics interest
- Access to the UCH Education Centre for simulation, including laparoscopic procedures (2010)
- Program leads
- Abraham Cherian, Alexander Cho
- Apply through
- Direct application
- Focus
- 24 months (18 months GOSH, 6 months UCLH adolescent urology): emergency paediatric urology, antenatal hydronephrosis, neuropathic bladder and bowel, incontinence, urolithiasis; logbook and consultant appraisals
Training
- Structure
- 24 months: 18 at GOSH and 6 at UCLH; in 2010 the programme was one year at each hospital
- Research
- Fellows join audit, research, radiology, pathology, oncology and journal club meetings; GOSH is linked with the Institute of Child Health (2010)
- Case numbers
- GOSH: 596 urology inpatient discharges in 2025/26, day cases excluded
- GOSH: 63 primary bladder exstrophy closures from 2021/22 to 2025/26, 14 of them in 2025/26
- GOSH: 51 primary single-stage and 26 two-stage hypospadias repairs in 2025/26
- GOSH: 189 scheduled kidney stone procedures in 2025/26
- GOSH unit, 2010: over 1,900 procedures, 800 new referrals and 4,000 outpatients a year
- Hospitals
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children · University College London Hospitals (adolescent urology)
- Faculty
- Navroop Johal, Neetu Kumar, Imran Mushtaq, Naima Smeulders, Ganesh Vythilingam, Divyesh Desai