Medicine and Surgery

Contents: Embriology and malformations of the genitourinary tract. Anatomy of the genitourinary tract. Diagnosis and management of urinary tract infection and sexually transmitted diseases including cystitis, epididymitis, prostatitis and urethritis. Differential diagnosis and management of haematuria. PSA screening. Lower urinary tract symptoms; benign prostatic enlargement/hyperplasia/obstruction. Diagnosis/staging/management of renal tumours, Diagnosis/staging/management of urotelial tumours of the upper urinary tract and of the bladder; Diagnosis/staging/management of prostate cancer; Diagnosis/staging/management of testicular cancer; Diagnosis/staging/management of penile cancer; Obstructive uropathy: diagnosis and treatment; Trauma of the urinary tract (kidney, bladder, urethra and testis) and emergencies in urology (including paraphymosis and testis torsion); Urinary incontinence: pathophysiology and principles of treatment; Male infertility (including varicocele) and erectile dysfunction; Urinary lithiasis: pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment;

Requirements: The student must have passed the exams of the first 3 years, and have a solid knowledge of human embryology, histology, normal human anatomy, microbiology and human physiology.

Suggested textbooks: Smith and Tanago’s General Urology, Jack. W. McAninch, Tom. F. Lue, Editors; Eighteenth Edition, McGraw Hill

Mandatory

Evaluation methods: oral examination.

Lectures and small group teaching in the urology ward and outpatient clinics.