Urology residents spend half of their adult clinical experience at The George Washington University Hospital and half at INOVA Fairfax Hospital. In addition, six consecutive months are spent in pediatric urology at Children’s National Medical Center as well as six consecutive months performing research at The George Washington University and The National Institute of Health.
George Washington University
The George Washington University Hospital is a new state-of-the-art hospital which opened in 2002, encompassing 371 beds, and 15,691 admissions a year. The ED is a Level 1 trauma center, and sees 61,185 patients a year. The hospital is located in the heart of the nation’s capital only blocks from the White House, State Department and many other national headquarters. As a result, the hospital serves a diverse group of patients, from area residents and homeless patients to visiting dignitaries and heads of state. The surgical experience encompasses a wide range of general and advanced urologic surgery from cystoscopic and ureteroscopic procedures to open prostatectomies to major oncologic surgery including open, laparoscopic and robotic prostatectomies, nephrectomies and cystectomies. Included are microscopic vasovasostomies and incontinence procedures including robotic culposuspensions and male and female slings. There is also a state of the art ambulatory center two blocks from the main hospital.
INOVA Fairfax Hospital
INOVA Fairfax Hospital is located 10 miles outside of Washington DC in Fairfax, Virginia. It is located on the same campus as INOVA Fairfax Hospital for Women and Children, the INOVA Heart and Vascular Institute, and a new satellite campus for Medical College of Virginia Medical School. INOVA Fairfax Hospital is an 833-bed tertiary care hospital, which houses Northern Virginia's only Level 1 trauma center for treating the most critically injured patients and the nation's fifth busiest obstetrics program. It also is one of only six community hospitals in the nation offering the full spectrum of organ transplantation. Here residents experience an extremely busy surgical census in a private practice setting covering 20 clinical faculty members. The surgical experience encompasses a wide range of open and endoscopic and laparoscopic cases from basic general urology with 2 cystoscopy suites to state-of-the-art laparoscopy and robotic surgery including laparoscopic nephrectomies, robotic prostatatectomies and robotic cystectomies.
Children’s National Medical Center
Children’s National Medical Center is the only exclusive provider of pediatric care in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. It is the only freestanding children’s hospital between Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Norfolk, and Atlanta, treating more than 360,000 patients each year who come from throughout the region, nation and world. Children's Hospital houses over 279 inpatient beds and serves as the Level 1 Trauma Center for the District of Columbia, as well as the referral center for cancer, burns, neonatology, and critical care. Children’s Hospital just completed a large renovation opening a new East Inpatient Tower. This multimillion-dollar renovation has three floors of 140 new private patient rooms with private bathrooms and internet access in each room. The wing is designed to enhance family-centered care. The expansion includes a renovated surgery area, new Pediatric Intensive Care, Cardiac Intensive Care and Heart, Lung, Kidney, Neurosciences, Bone Marrow and Hematology/Oncology inpatient units.
The resident surgical experience includes basic open and cystoscopic procedures ranging from orchidopexy to laparoscopic nephrectomy and pyeloplasty as well as major open surgery including bladder augmentation and genital reconstruction.