ReconstructionInternational
National Defense Medical College (NDMC)
Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan
One-year GURS Global fellowship in male urethral reconstruction at National Defense Medical College Hospital, from primary strictures to pelvic fracture urethral injury and panurethral disease, with added prolapse and incontinence surgery.
Length1 year
StartsJuly 1
SalaryEmployed by Japan's Ministry of Defense, paid on national public service scales
GURS Global Fellowship site (announced Feb 2025)
What stands out
- Reconstruction division sits in a trauma, burn and tactical medicine centre with plastic and microsurgery faculty
- Tissue engineering research for urethral stricture
- Program lead
- Akio Horiguchi
- Apply through
- AUA / GURS Match
- Timeline
- AUA GURS Match (2027 appointment cycle): registration Nov 6, 2025 to Mar 6, 2026; rank list deadline Jun 5, 2026; results Jun 29, 2026. Next-cycle dates not yet posted as of Oct 1, 2026.
- Focus
- Male urethral reconstruction
Training
- Research
- Research focus on tissue engineering for urethral stricture; access to a clinical database; international academic activity required
- Case numbers
- Fellows take part in over 200 reconstructive operations a year
- Reconstruction division: 1,731 cumulative reconstructive operations by Dec 2024
- Fellow GURS case log 2023-24: 287 cases, incl. 147 anterior and 45 posterior urethroplasties
- Director's urethroplasties at NDMC Hospital, Aug 2003 to Dec 2025: 1,966, incl. 721 for straddle or pelvic fracture injury
- Hospital
- National Defense Medical College Hospital, Center for Trauma, Burn and Tactical Medicine, Reconstruction Division
- Faculty
- Tetsushi Aizawa, Kazuki Yanagida
Requirements (7)
- Valid Japanese medical license
- Completed urology residency and certified urologist
- Japanese preferred; English fluency essential
- Employment by Japan Ministry of Defense
- CV
- Letter of interest
- At least one letter of recommendation