The Urology Residency Program at present is set up as a one plus four commitment, with the first year in General Surgery. The urology residents have the same rotations as the general surgery residents, including exposure to transplant medicine. Upon successful completion of their preliminary first year, the residents then enter into a four-year urology program. The four years are set up in blocks of four months, with 24 months spent as a junior resident and 24 months as a senior/chief resident.

We have four facilities for resident education: University Medical Center (UMC); Southern Arizona Veteran's Affairs Health Care System (SAVAHCS); our community hospital, Tucson Medical Center (TMC); University Physicians Healthcare (UPH) and the Denver Children's Hospital. Each of the facilities has a different role in the education of the resident staff. University Medical Center is the core of your education, exposing you to a diverse experience in urologic care in close association with the University faculty. Tucson Medical Center provides an opportunity to obtain urologic input from an additional eight to ten faculty members, furthering the breadth of your education. The SAVAHCS is staffed by two additional faculty, and provides our residents with the opportunity to "mature" as a physician. At the SAVAHCS, residents have the opportunity to be the patient's primary physician, learning to establish appropriate patient-physician relationships, patient communication skills, and optimizing their clinical decision-making education. This is a valuable part of any training program, allowing you to more easily transition into your professional association after completion of your resident education. University Physicians Healthcare provides residents the opportunity to work with Southern Arizona's only robotically assisted daVinci surgical system.The Denver Children's Hospital provides an intensive experience in pediatric urology under the tutelage of fellowship-trained pediatric urologists.

The block diagram shows a typical four-year rotation schedule for one resident. We consider resident training our most important responsibility, and take great pride in the high quality experience our diversified program offers to our urology residents.