Response to Re: Interns’ perceptions of exposure to urology during medical school education in Victoria, Australia

Undergraduate teaching of urology: Quo vadis?

“…The low levels of comfort dealing with common urological diseases and urological basic procedures are concerning, especially because these pathologies are highly prevalent with an important social and economic burden and are likely to increase with population aging. Azer et al identified frequent urological diseases in the general clinical practice in which Australian residents were not able to deal with, like prostatitis, epididymitis and scrotal pain 8 . These results are concordant to our results, in which most of the residents did not feel comfortable dealing with these pathologies.…”