Program Overview
Urology Residency Program
The Scott Department of Urology Residency Program at the Baylor College of Medicine offers a clinically robust five-year training program designed to immerse trainees into all specialty areas within Urology.
About Our Program
Our current clinical faculty include specialists who are fellowship-trained in Oncology, Pediatrics, Endourology/Minimally Invasive Surgery, Male Reproductive Medicine, Neurourology, Female Urology, and Trauma & Reconstruction. The program boasts substantial collaboration with an impressive complement of voluntary faculty, most of whom are also fellowship-trained. Our trainees benefit from clinical exposure to a wide variety of practice environments, generating unparalleled clinical diversity.
Affiliated Institutions
One of the great strengths of our educational program is our wide variety of practice sites. Our trainees rotate through five unique and renowned institutions:
- Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, our private adult hospital and home to an extremely clinically busy and complex urologic service.
- Texas Children's Hospital, the largest children's hospital in the United States, affording our residents unparalleled experience in pediatric urologic surgery.
- Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the largest Veterans Affairs Hospital in the United States, providing our residents a unique combination of technologically innovative surgery with unique autonomy.
- Ben Taub Hospital, an elite Level 1 trauma center, providing world-class care to the underserved population of Houston and affording our residents exceptional autonomy in managing a unique array of complex pathology.
- The Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center-McNair Campus, our newest addition and home to our academic and clinical offices, where residents further refine their counseling skills while learning from leaders in the field.
Educational Curriculum
We offer an innovative, engaging, and interactive curriculum designed to strengthen our residents' knowledge and clinical acumen while fostering interest in scholarly activity with a strong sense of camaraderie. This includes:
- Weekly Grand Rounds and Resident Education conferences
- Annual and semi-annual educational events, such as simulation and hands-on laboratories, boot camps, Visiting Professorships, research forums, and CME courses
- A novel Wellness Curriculum, which has been presented at national meetings
- Numerous case conferences and ethics sessions utilizing flipped classroom models
- A robust surgical skills curriculum, including a Minimally Invasive Surgery curriculum focusing on laparoscopic and robotic surgery
Research Opportunities
Baylor College of Medicine is privileged to persistently rank in the top 30 for NIH research funding. Thanks to a diversity of resources and opportunities that only the largest medical center in the world can offer, our faculty and residents are able to pursue a large array of scholarly activity, from bench side and clinical outcomes research to phase III clinical trials. Our residents proudly represent us at most major national urologic meetings, and their efforts win them a wide variety of sought-after national and international traveling fellowships.
Program Highlights
- Ranked #16 (of 150 programs) in the 2024 Doximity Residency Navigator
- Our reputation means that when you apply for fellowship or a job, people will recognize that you have received the training you need to succeed
- Alumni have gone on to realize their career goals
Resident Wellness
Our resident wellness curriculum was designed to support the physical and mental wellness of our residents.
Residency Program Faculty
The Department of Urology faculty play an active role in the residency program.
Mentorship
Our residency program has a robust and purposeful academic mentorship program that has been quite successful since its inception. Each resident is matched to an attending physician with similar interests, and they meet two to four times a year to discuss career interests, research, and any other topic of importance to the resident. This mentorship is meant to extend outside of the structured meeting times.