Pediatric Urology Fellowship
The pediatric urology fellowship is a two-year program that consists of:
- One year of clinical pediatric urology training – Rotations include outpatient clinic, complex reconstructions/ambulatory surgery, urodynamics, exposure to spina bifida and stone clinic, fetal treatment and pediatric oncology (tumor board).
- One year of clinical/basic science – You will conduct ongoing research and be encouraged to develop your own field of interest.
The pediatric urology fellow is expected to attend and participate in weekly educational conferences, didactic teaching sessions, daily management of inpatients with the urology residents and consulting services.
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Location: The clinical program is centered at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, MD, which serves a diverse patient population and receives a wide range of pediatric urology cases.
Accreditation: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
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Johns Hopkins faculty involved in the training of the pediatric urology fellow include pediatric endocrinologists, nephrologists, neonatologists, oncologists, neurosurgeons, infectious disease specialists, geneticists, radiologists and pediatric surgeons.
The program’s core faculty are:
Wang, Ming-Hsien, M.D. - Program Director -
Research Training
During the year of dedicated research, fellows participate in both clinical and basic science research. Resources include:
- A large biorepository of detrusor smooth muscle cells and urothelial cells from Exstrophy-Epispadias complex patients and vesicoureteral reflux patients is available for biomarker analysis.
- For clinical research, a large prospectively maintained database of Exstrophy-Epispadias complex patients is available for surgical, continence and other outcomes-based analysis.
- Other clinical research includes imaging in VUR patients, LUTS in the pediatric population, Health Related Quality of Life and Disorders of Sexual Development.
- We are conducting a phase 1 clinical trial (NCT01011777) investigating the use of endoscopically injected muscle-derived progenitor cells in exstrophy patients with urinary incontinence.
Surgical Training
During the second year of fellowship, the fellow leads the clinical service, where surgical and clinical skills are developed in the following areas:
- Bedwetting (enuresis)
- Bladder exstrophy
- Cloacal exstrophy
- Epispadias
- Hypospadias
- Kidney stones
- Undescended testicle
- Ureteropelvic junction obstruction
- Vesicoureteral reflux
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- A passing score on USMLE Step II is required for all trainees.
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine GME policies apply to all clinical fellows.
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Eligible applicants are completing a urology residency program and are preferably candidates for the American Board of Urology. We participate in the matching program by the American Urologic Association AUA and the Society for Pediatric Urology.
Applications are due in winter or early spring.
Additional information about the matching process, as well as a general application, is online at The Societies for Pediatric Urology.
In addition, those interested in applying to the pediatric urology fellowship program should send curriculum vitae and three letters of recommendation to Ming-Hsien Wang, M.D.
Ming-Hsien Wang, M.D.
Program Director
[email protected]Questions regarding the fellowship can be directed to either Dr. Wang or Fellowship Coordinator Kate Maloney.
Fellowship Coordinator
Kate Maloney
410-614-6926
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