Part 2 of this topic is available here. Prostate biopsy (PBx) to exclude cancer has been part of clinical practice since the beginning of the...
Educational theories: how familiar are we with these theories and their application in our training? As a Simulation Fellow I have been involved in teaching...
In May/June 2016 we featured a wonderful account of Zeeshan Aslam’s first trip with Urolink to the Hawassa Referral Hospital in Ethiopia (see here). One...
At a urology research meeting in Sheffield a few years ago, a former post doctorate researcher in urology, Mathieu Boudes, said: “Stop calling it basic...
There has been so much recent discussion and so much emphasis placed on the fundamental right that we all have to determine what is or...
Research is the process of acquiring new generalisable knowledge and should be fully integrated into healthcare work. There is a growing drive to encourage and...
The current therapeutic ratio for radical therapy in many men with localised prostate cancer is not ideal. For a significant side-effect profile, there seems to...
“We need a system and we will surely have it - which will produce not only surgeons, but surgeons of the highest type” William Halsted...
Good time management is thought to not only reduce stress, but to improve personal efficiency, service delivery, clinical effectiveness and patient care. It was Benjamin...
Background The year was 2004; I had just moved to the UK as a young house officer and finished my observership programme at Great Ormond...
The concept of ‘evidence-based medicine’ (EBM) was first developed in the early 1990s and was described as “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of the...
The physician associate (PA) is a new role in the NHS which has expanded across medical and surgical specialties to include urology. In the USA,...