Kan Kathleen M, Jayadevan Rajiv, Rodriguez Nermarie, Weissbart Steven, Stock Jeffrey A
Departments of Urology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and New York University School of Medicine (NR), New York, New York.
Urol Pract. 2017 Jan;4(1):71-75. doi: 10.1016/j.urpr.2016.03.004. Epub 2016 Sep 16.
Providing medical students with a basic urological education is important as the geriatric population expands and the need for urological care increases. In the last decades there have been considerable changes to medical school curricula and graduation requirements that may impact medical student exposure to urology. We reviewed the literature pertaining to urological education for medical students in the United States.
We searched the PubMed® and Medline® databases to identify articles pertaining to medical student education in urology. We summarized these articles according to 4 themes, including 1) medical student electives in urology, 2) medical student career interest in urology, 3) new interventions in urology education and 4) the urology match.
We identified 25 articles, which showed that 1) medical student exposure to urology has markedly declined, 2) medical students remain highly interested in pursuing a career in urology, 3) the AUA (American Urological Association) medical student curriculum has provided a key resource for medical school urological education and 4) applying for urology residency may be expensive and challenging.
Medical school urological education has changed in the last decades. Although it appears that fewer medical students are required to rotate through urology, new materials are available to educate medical students in urology and many students are highly interested in pursing a career in the field.
随着老年人口的增加以及对泌尿外科护理需求的上升，为医学生提供基础泌尿外科教育至关重要。在过去几十年里，医学院课程和毕业要求发生了重大变化，这可能会影响医学生接触泌尿外科的机会。我们回顾了美国有关医学生泌尿外科教育的文献。
我们检索了PubMed®和Medline®数据库，以识别与医学生泌尿外科教育相关的文章。我们根据4个主题对这些文章进行了总结，包括1）医学生泌尿外科选修课，2）医学生对泌尿外科职业的兴趣，3）泌尿外科教育的新干预措施，以及4）泌尿外科住院医师匹配。
我们识别出25篇文章，这些文章表明：1）医学生接触泌尿外科的机会显著下降，2）医学生对从事泌尿外科职业仍高度感兴趣，3）美国泌尿外科学会（AUA）的医学生课程为医学院的泌尿外科教育提供了关键资源，4）申请泌尿外科住院医师职位可能成本高昂且具有挑战性。
在过去几十年里，医学院的泌尿外科教育发生了变化。虽然似乎要求轮转泌尿外科的医学生减少了，但有新的材料可用于对医学生进行泌尿外科教育，而且许多学生对从事该领域的职业高度感兴趣。
