Our Program
Program size and facilities
The Urology Residency Program involves the Section of Urology and the Department of Surgery at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, The Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth (Lebanon, NH campus) the Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Officer Center in White River Junction, Vt., and Concord Urology in Concord, NH.
We accept two residents per year. Effective July 2011, one year of general surgery training in an approved residency program is a prerequisite. The length of the urology program is four years, making a total of eight residents in the program. Eight full-time faculty members provide a complete range of subspecialty urologic training.
The Urology Program has provided laparoscopic training since 2001. Since the purchase of daVinci robots by DHMC and Concord Hospital in 2007, residents are trained in robotic procedures. The majority of nephrectomies, RPLNDs and pyeloplasties at DHMC are performed laparoscopically or robotically. Our residents continue to have a robust open surgical experience, both at DHMC and at the VA.
While didactic teaching is a major component of the residency program, individual faculty/resident interactions epitomize the teaching philosophy.
Program objectives
The Urology Residency is dedicated to providing residents with basic science, clinical knowledge, and the urologic skills sufficient to permit the resident to start in a private or academic practice at graduation. The program encompasses the scientific basis of urologic pathophysiology and therapeutics, decision making in urologic diagnosis and management, urologic surgical technique and socioeconomic perspectives of urologic practice.
Residents are exposed to the continuum of urologic care through the outpatient clinic, the outpatient surgical unit, the inpatient service, the consultation service and the Emergency Room.
We encourage residents to perform all major surgical cases, under direct supervision by the responsible surgeon. Residents acquire an understanding of basic principles of research through their involvement in research activity.
