Urology Residency Program

Program Overview

The Urology Residency Training Program at Westchester Medical Center is a structured five-year post graduate curriculum designed to produce a practitioner of the highest caliber who espouses the professionalism, rigor, and tenets of the ideal physician in the urologic domain, promoting excellence in their health care environment, in the field of urology, and in their community. The program accepts two residents a year through the American Urological Association (AUA) match who have fulfilled all the necessary medical school requirements leading to the achievement of a Medical Degree (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathy (DO). The sponsoring site of the program is Westchester Medical Center and two additional “participating” sites: Metropolitan Hospital Center (MHC) and Lincoln Medical Center (LMC), which provide unique learning experiences.

Each rotation is designed to occur at specific points along the educational pathway and provide surgical training consummate with certain residency years. All rotations are designed so that a junior and senior resident are assigned together in rotations to ensure each has a unique role, exposure, and experience at each site. Rotations on the Urology service are typically three months in duration. Publication is strongly encouraged. Support is provided to the residents for attendance at the national meeting of the AUA when a resident’s abstract is accepted for presentation at the meeting or other domestic meeting of the resident’s choice. 

The Program is fully accredited by the ACGME. Resident feedback, input, and design are solicited to optimize the residency educational training environment. Four one-week vacations are provided each year. Benefits are provided through Westchester Medical Center. 

Over the course of the five-year program, residents should expect to:

• Participate in safe, compassionate, and cost-effective patient care under a level of supervision commensurate with their achieved cognitive and procedural skills
• Participate fully in the educational activities of their program and, as required, assume responsibility for teaching and supervising other residents and students
• Fulfill the educational requirements of the training program established by the American Board of Urology (ABU) to become candidates for the ABU certifying exam.
• Demonstrate specific urology knowledge, skills and attitudes, including:
  • Patient and family-centered care that is compassionate, appropriate, and effective for the treatment of health problems and the promotion of health.
  • Medical knowledge about established and evolving biomedical, clinical, and cognate (e.g., epidemiological and social-behavioral) sciences and the application of this knowledge to patient care.
  • Practice-based learning and improvement that involves investigation and evaluation of their own patient care, appraisal and assimilation of scientific evidence, and improvements in patient care.
  • Interpersonal and communication skills that result in effective information exchange and teaming with patients, their families, and other health professionals.
  • Professionalism, as manifested through a commitment to carrying out professional responsibilities, adherence to ethical principles, and sensitivity to a diverse patient population.
  • Systems-based practice, as manifested by actions that demonstrate an awareness of and responsiveness to the larger context and system for health care and the ability to effectively call on system resources to provide care that is of optimal value.
• Participate in institutional programs and activities involving physicians, and adhere to applicable laws, regulations, rules, policies, procedures and established practices of the sponsoring institution and all other institutions to which they are assigned.
• Participate in institutional committees and councils, especially those related to patient care review activities and residency education.
• Learn and apply reasonable cost-containment measures in the provision of patient care.

Program Curriculum

Our Clinical Locations

Westchester Medical Center

Westchester Medical Center shares its leafy campus with New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY, approximately 20 miles north of New York City. It is a Level 1 Trauma and Burn Center and a major hub for specialized care referrals. Here, we take care of patients from a very large catchment area stretching from the northern border of New York City to the Catskill Mountains.

WMC has a pediatric hospital (Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital) with eight dedicated pediatric operating rooms as well as many other non-operating room anesthetizing sites, including MRI, radiation and nuclear medicine, and endoscopy. The Ambulatory Care Pavilion, which opened in July 2019, added many anesthetizing locations, both OR and Non-OR. 

Construction is underway on the 128-bed state-of-the-art WMC Critical Care Tower, a $220 million project that when completed will span 162,000 square feet over five floors. Our caseload includes a full profile of cardiac, interventional pulmonary and thoracic, complex orthopedic, neurosurgical and solid organ transplant interventions, to name the busiest services. We have a large heart failure and ECMO referral program. Trauma orthopedics and surgery provide our residents a great variety of “open” cases. Residents participate in minimally invasive and robotic interventions in gynecologic-oncology, urology, colorectal, endocrine and thoracic surgery, as well as complex cardiac and neurological endovascular interventions, both pediatric and adult. The Acute and Chronic Pain Management care rotations cover both the pediatric and adult inpatients and outpatients, including complex consultations for patients in the Burn ICU.