Hi all, im definitely interested in urology but was wondering which clerkships/rotations are considered important to complete and do well in before applying to residencies. i currently have ob-gyn pushed back to after the match, but is that a bad idea? i heard from somewhere that ob-gyn is actually considered an important rotation for applicants to uro, and wanted to know if urology residency programs would care if i didn't complete it before I applied. thanks!
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Ob-gyn = important rotation?
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One chair told me he was interested in surgery, medicine, and ob-gyn grades.
Sounds right. I think surgery and medicine are probably most important with OB/Gyn third. OB/Gyn is probably the field closest to urology in terms of scope of practice, mix of surgery/medicine, and even anatomy. Maybe we should weight it more heavily.
Most urologists have a healthy (mostly good-natured) scorn for OB/Gyn stemming I think from training/cultural differences, the fact that we repair their screwups on a regular basis, and some overlap in scope with urogyn. As a field we come from general surgery roots, and we seem to align more with them--probably why surgery is seen as more important.
Most urologists have a healthy (mostly good-natured) scorn for OB/Gyn stemming I think from training/cultural differences, the fact that we repair their screwups on a regular basis, and some overlap in scope with urogyn. As a field we come from general surgery roots, and we seem to align more with them--probably why surgery is seen as more important.
"Is that the ureter?"
"I think that's the ureter."
"Hell, I THINK that's a lumen, yeah."
"Can we call urology to come take a look? Who's operating today?"
You hear this conversation in the OR more often than you would expect.
"I think that's the ureter."
"Hell, I THINK that's a lumen, yeah."
"Can we call urology to come take a look? Who's operating today?"
You hear this conversation in the OR more often than you would expect.
One PD on this year's interview trail: "Ob/gyns, the only known natural predator of the human ureter"
