Residents and faculty attend weekly didactic sessions and multidisciplinary conferences as an essential complement to the surgical curriculum, including:
- Annual visiting professorships
- AUA update, Core Curriculum, and Guidelines seminars
- Department of Surgery Grand Rounds
- Genitourinary Radiology conference
- Laparoscopy and da Vinci Xi Surgical System simulation curriculum
- Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conference
- Norris Cotton Cancer Care Pavilion Lebanon Genitourinary Tumor Board conference
- Resident/Faculty Journal Club
- Urodynamic seminar
- Urology Grand Rounds
Dedicated time for conferences include:
| Tuesday morning | 6:30 to 7:30 am | Urology didactics, Urodynamics |
| Thursday morning | 7 to 8 am | GU Radiology conference |
| Thursday evening | 4:30 to 6 pm | GU tumor board |
| Friday morning | 7 to 8:30 am | Urology didactics, M&M, Journal Club, Surgery Grand Rounds. |
Residents are expected to attend all conferences and are excluded from clinical duties during conferences. All Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center faculty members serve as conference moderators and provide 1-2 formal lectures each year to the residents.
The Tuesday AM conference schedule mirrors the AUA core curriculum and the corresponding Campbell’s chapters for each topic are distributed with the conference schedule. Residents are expected to have read the appropriate chapters prior to the conference and presenters are encouraged to engage learners during their presentation.
GU radiology conference brings together residents and faculty from urology and diagnostic and interventional radiology to review critical elements of radiographic findings and surgical and radiographic intervention in urologic disease.
Multidisciplinary GU tumor board allows urology faculty and residents review of complex urologic oncology cases with the valuable input and added expertise of GU pathologists, radiologists, and medical and radiation oncology.
Friday morning grand rounds provide opportunity for hands-on skills labs, faculty and resident lectures, journal club, and monthly morbidity and mortality conference, as well as a quarterly multidisciplinary urology/urogynecology conference.