Educational Resources

One of the learning objectives for this course is for you to learn the proper technique for the insertion of a urethral catheter into both male and female patients. This skill may be used in the clinic or operating room. Please watch the online videos from the New England Journal of Medicine that illustrate the proper technique for catheter insertion in preparation prior to doing it yourself.

• Female Urethral Catheterization
• Male Urethral Catheterization

There is also a video, which demonstrates a technique for doing a thorough female pelvic exam and a module for the male genital exam.

• Female Genital Exam
• Male Genital Exam

Modules are a good reference for preparation prior to the clinic and OR. Quizzes can help guide your reading and will give you a checklist of areas to review, based on your responses. You will also find links to case-based clinical scenarios after many of the modules. These reinforce some of the principle learning objectives for those modules and they are fun to do.

Go here for links to UW Urology Modules & Quizzes.

Campbell-Walsh-Wein Urology, 12th ed. (2021)

From Smith & Tanagho’s General Urology – 19th Ed. (2020):

Prior to starting your Urology rotation:

• Chapter 1, “Anatomy of the Genitourinary Tract”, to refresh your memory on urologic anatomy. Also skim through Chapter 3, “Symptoms of Disorders of the Genitourinary Tract”, to learn why urologic problems cause the symptoms they cause.

Prior to scrubbing in the operating room:

• It would be beneficial to read Chapter 10, “Laparoscopic Surgery”, prior to scrubbing for any laparoscopic surgical procedures such as laparoscopic nephrectomies, prostatectomies or pyeloplasties.
• It would be beneficial to read Chapter 8, “Retrograde Instrumentation of the Urinary Tract”, prior to scrubbing for outpatient cystoscopic or ureteroscopic cases in B2 Ambulatory Surgery.
• It would be beneficial to read Chapter 11, “Robotic Surgery in Urology”, prior to scrubbing for a robotic case.
• It would be beneficial to review Chapter 13, “Vesicoureteral Reflux”, prior to scrubbing in on ureteral reimplantation surgery or endoscopic management of pediatric vesicoureteral reflux.
• It would be beneficial to review Chapter 23, “Urinary Diversion & Bladder Substitution”, prior to scrubbing in for a cystectomy or bladder augmentation.
• It would be beneficial to read Chapter 37, “Disorders of the Ureter & Ureteropelvic Junction”, prior to scrubbing in on a ureterocele repair, a pyeloplasty or a megaureter repair.
• It would be beneficial to read Chapter 41, “Disorders of the Penis & Male Urethra”, prior to scrubbing in on a hypospadius repair.

Additional information about the disease processes you may encounter while seeing patients in clinic: 

• You may wish to skim through Chapter 12, “Urinary Obstruction & Stasis”, prior to joining Dr. Hedican in clinic.
• You may wish to skim through Chapter 13, “Vesicoureteral Reflux”, as well as Chapter 37, “Disorders of the Ureter & Ureteropelvic Junction”, and Chapter 41, “Disorders of the Penis & Male Urethra”, prior to seeing patients in the Pediatric Urology clinic.
• You may wish to skim through Chapter 17, “Urinary Stone Disease”, prior to seeing patients with Dr. Nakada or Dr. Best.
• You may wish to skim through Chapter 19, “Urothelial Carcinoma: Cancers of the Bladder, Ureter, & Renal Pelvis”, prior to seeing patients with Dr. Jarrard.
• You may wish to skim through Chapter 20, “Renal Parenchymal Neoplasms”, prior to seeing patients with Dr. Hedican or Dr. Abel.
• You may wish to skim through Chapter 21, “Neoplasms of the Prostate Gland”, prior to seeing patients with Dr. Jarrard.
• You may wish to skim through  , and Chapter 30, “Urinary Incontinence”, prior to seeing patients with Dr. McAchran.
• You may wish to skim through Chapter 39, “Male Sexual Dysfunction”, and Chapter 44, “Male Infertility”, prior to seeing patients with Dr. Williams.