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Hospital Infantil Universitario La Paz, Paediatric Urology Section
Madrid, Spain
Two-year ESPU-certified paediatric urology fellowship in the paediatric urology section of La Paz Children's Hospital, Madrid. Training gives exposure to clinics, theatre, inpatient care, radiology, urotherapy and urodynamics, pathology and oncology, and includes 6 months of research.
Length2 years
Spots1 paediatric urology fellow on the unit team
ESPU certified paediatric urology training programme (certified January 2009)
What stands out
- Spanish national reference centre for kidney transplant, exstrophy complex, neuropathic bladder and oncology
- Transitional adolescent urology care unit within the department
- Apply through
- Direct application
- Focus
- Two years of clinical paediatric urology including 6 months of research; national reference for renal transplant, bladder exstrophy, neuropathic bladder and oncology; DSD, PUV, minimally invasive and perinatal urology
Training
- Structure
- 2 years of clinical paediatric urology, including 6 months of research training
- Research
- 6 months of research training; fellows encouraged to present at meetings and publish; hospital linked to Autonomous University of Madrid and IdiPaz
- Case numbers
- Unit: 1,122 new referrals, 3,654 outpatients and 523 inpatients per year
- Unit: 530 urological procedures and 140 urodynamic studies per year
- Children's hospital: 16 kidney transplants per year
- Hospital
- Hospital Infantil Universitario La Paz, Madrid
- Faculty
- Pedro López Pereira