Departments of Instruction

Division of Urology

The primary goal of this division’s educational opportunity is to allow students to recognize and treat diseases of the urinary tract and male genital tract and recognize when the assistance of a urologist is required. A series of urology lectures is given to third-year medical students during the general surgery rotation.

The pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of hematuria, prostatism, urinary tract neoplasms, trauma and infections, urinary calculi, and pediatric logic problems are discussed.

Two electives are offered in urology. One month can be spent at Memorial Hermann – Texas Medical Center and Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) General hospitals. Surgical procedures, evaluation, and diagnosis of diseases of the urinary and male genital tract and the care of the ambulatory patient are stressed. Students attend a weekly radiology conferences and a residents’ conference. For students interested in oncology, an elective can be arranged at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.