Urology Residency Program

Our five-year, ACGME-accredited urology residency program continues its longstanding tradition of training and educating residents in all aspects of urology, providing a breadth of clinical experience, mentorship from interested faculty, and exposure to a variety of healthcare systems.

Our goals are to teach quality and compassionate clinical care, provide exposure to clinical research, and to stimulate an interest in the lifelong learning required of all of us. We are able to do this through stable, interested, and well-trained faculty. The relationship between faculty and residents has been and continues to be one of our strengths.

The Georgetown Urology department supports international health endeavors, and each resident has the opportunity to spend one week working in an international location where urologic services are severely lacking. Residents are encouraged to apply to IVUMed as well as other global health programs relevant to their individual interest.

Since July 2019, our urology residency has been a 5-year categorical program. During the PGY-1 year, urology interns will spend six months on the urology service. The remaining six months are spent developing important skills on general surgery services such as colorectal surgery, surgical ICU, and trauma.

Over the course of five years, residents will:

Our urology department places a large emphasis on providing great research opportunities to residents. With the move to a five-year program, residents will now have a dedicated research block during the residency with a month rotation in the PGY-3 year and a 2 month rotation in the PGY-4 year. During this time residents should collect and analyze data and draft abstracts for presentation at regional and national conferences. The research should be completed by manuscript publication. There is a dedicated research mentor to help guide residents through these processes and set them up for success. Residents have the flexibility to develop and complete a project in any subspecialty area of Urology with fellowship-trained mentors.

The program also hosts quarterly department-wide research meetings and a monthly urologic oncology research meeting. During those conferences, faculty present ongoing research projects and current clinical trials. Residents can also propose their research ideas to the department.

Each year our residents’ research is presented at the Mid-Atlantic regional AUA meeting as well as the national AUA conference. Residents have also presented at various subspecialty society meetings including the Society of Urologic Oncology, Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine, and Urogenital Reconstruction, the Society of Pediatric Urology, and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

The MedStar Health Department of Urology is dedicated to providing clinical care and promoting training environments that embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion. We partner with community organizations to provide urologic care to patients who are underinsured or without insurance at all, as well as those patients who have historically lacked access to the subspecialty care they need.

We also serve the international community through the MedStar Georgetown Advocacy and International Services Program, which facilitates transportation, lodging, financial arrangements, and interpretation services for our patients seeking care at MedStar Health from outside the country.

We are committed to developing a residency program that reflects the diversity of our communities and the diversity we envision in the future leaders within the field of urology.

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