Boston University Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Boston University's urology residency is a small, academic safety-net program based at Boston Medical Center, with core rotations at the Boston VA Healthcare System and Boston Children's Hospital for pediatric urology exposure. The five-year structure (one intern year split between general surgery and urology, then four dedicated urology years culminating in a chief year) is delivered by fellowship-trained faculty covering nearly every urologic subspecialty, including transgender medicine and surgery, sexual medicine, endourology, and advanced BPH technologies (HoLEP, Aquablation, Rezum), giving residents broad procedural exposure within a tight-knit resident cohort of only two per year. The program explicitly frames its mission as dual: producing competent clinical urologists while instilling academic productivity, with a dedicated PGY-4 research block, structured conference/simulation curricula (Solomont Simulation Center, CRIT, national society meetings), and collaboration with BU's Photonics Center and Boston Children's research labs. Graduate outcomes are genuinely mixed, splitting fairly evenly between community/private practice placement and subspecialty fellowships (endourology, male reproductive medicine, pediatric urology, female urology), reflecting a program that supports either pathway rather than pushing exclusively toward academia.