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Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, University of Barcelona, Paediatric Urology
Barcelona, Spain
Paediatric urology training in the Paediatric Urology Unit of the Sant Joan de Déu Surgery Department, covering neurogenic bladder, exstrophy-epispadias, DSD, obstructive uropathy and hypospadias. The unit repairs 75% of uropathies needing surgery minimally invasively.
LengthAt least 2 years (ESPU training standard)
ESPU certified paediatric urology training programme (certified January 2018)
What stands out
- University of Barcelona Master's Degree in Paediatric Urology, a 2-year in-person course run by the unit since 2017
- CSUR national reference accreditation from the Spanish Ministry of Health for epispadias and bladder exstrophy
- Fetal treatment of lower urinary tract obstruction with the hospital's foetal medicine service
- Course on laparoscopic surgery in paediatric urology; transitional care unit for adults
- Program lead
- Luis Garcia-Aparicio
- Apply through
- Direct application
- Focus
- Paediatric urology unit within the Paediatric Surgery Department, including hypospadias, obstructive uropathy, exstrophy-epispadias and DSD
Training
- Research
- Unit trials include a Pfizer-sponsored neurogenic detrusor overactivity study and a Deflux vs Vantris reflux RCT
- Case numbers
- Unit, 2017: 800 operations, 150 hypospadias patients, 150 obstructive uropathy cases
- Unit, 2017: 8 exstrophy-epispadias operations, 9 disorders of sex development
- Unit: over 5,600 outpatient visits and over 100 urodynamic studies per year
- Hospital
- Hospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona, Esplugues de Llobregat
- Faculty
- Oriol Martín Solé, Sonia Pérez Bertolez, Jordi Prat Ortells