A report on the present status of undergraduate urologic teaching in medical schools and some resulting recommendations.
At the request of the Education Council of the American Urological Association a survey of urologic teaching in America's medical schools was done. The most startling and distressing finding, based upon the study of 99 medical schools, was that more than half (52 per cent) of the schools do not require any clinical exposure to urology before graduation. Suggestions are offered, based upon the documented importance of urology in the delivery of primary care, for an approach to medical school curriculum committees to mandate the return of urology as a required subject in our schools.
D003479:Curriculum; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D012577:Schools, Medical; D012955:Societies, Medical; D013663:Teaching; D014481:United States; D014572:Urology / Q000193:education*