Urologic OncologyUnited States
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Two-year SUO fellowship with one protected research year and one clinical year. The fellow operates up to four days a week, with exposure to open, laparoscopic, single-port and multi-port robotic, and needle-based cancer treatments.
Length2 years (1 research year, 1 clinical year)
Spots1 fellow per year
SUO approved program
What stands out
- Two intraoperative MRI scanners and an intraoperative CT in the Duke Medical Pavilion for image-guided prostate and kidney cases
- Duke and NC State Consortium of Canine Oncology (C3O) studying dog and human bladder cancer
- Biomedical engineering projects on ARFI prostate imaging, HIFU and instrument design, including through Duke MEDX
- Clinical-year fellow has admitting privileges, functions as junior faculty and leads the multidisciplinary tumor board
- Program leads
- Michael Abern, Ankeet Shah
- Apply through
- AUA / SUO Match
- Focus
- Clinical and operative urologic oncology with multidisciplinary oncology; protected research year
- Eligibility
- Not statedUSMLE requiredNo visa sponsorship
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Training
- Structure
- One research year (at least 80% protected) and one clinical year with admitting and operative privileges; call typically about one week per quarter
- Research
- Weekly course in biostatistics, methods, writing and grants; prostate and renal mass databases, tissue bank, vivarium; NCI T32 surgical oncology program
- Case numbers
- Radical prostatectomy: about 450 to 500 per year
- Partial nephrectomy: about 150 per year
- Radical cystectomy: about 80 to 100 per year; radical nephrectomy: about 80 to 100 per year
- RPLND or vena caval thrombectomy: about 25 to 30 per year
- Hospitals
- Duke Cancer Institute · Duke Medical Pavilion
- Faculty
- Judd W. Moul, Cary N. Robertson, Deborah R. Kaye, Jeffrey R. Gingrich, Reza Nabavizadeh, Michael B. Rothberg
Requirements (5)
- Completion of an ACGME-accredited urology residency
- All three USMLE steps completed
- Three letters, one from current program director
- Eligible for an unrestricted North Carolina medical licence
- No visa sponsorship currently offered