Case Western Reserve University-University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-based, research-intensive urology program anchored at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in partnership with Case Western Reserve University, with a department that consistently ranks among the top 25 nationally in NIH funding and produces 150+ peer-reviewed publications annually. The six-year curriculum dedicates a full, non-accredited PGY4 year to resident-driven research and formal research methodology training, a structural rarity among urology programs, and residents rotate across UH's adult/pediatric services, MetroHealth, the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA, and community sites, giving exposure spanning safety-net, VA, and quaternary pediatric care (Rainbow Babies & Children's). Subspecialty depth spans endourology, female pelvic medicine, reconstructive urology, male sexual health, oncology, pediatric urology, and gender-affirming/LGBTQ+ care, reflecting a broad faculty structure feeding both academic and competitive fellowship placement as well as private practice. The program explicitly emphasizes gender diversity in its resident pool (roughly 50% women) and frames itself as training "leaders" in both academic and private-practice urology since 1939.