Duke University Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Duke University Hospital's Urology Residency is a university-based, tertiary/quaternary academic program built around a mandatory dedicated PGY3 "Surgeon-Scientist Research Fellowship," with formal mentor-matching, Gantt-chart research planning, quarterly progress oversight, and a year-long research methodology course. Clinical training spans Duke University Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, and the Durham and Asheville VA hospitals, providing broad exposure across oncology, endourology, reconstructive/female urology, pediatric urology, and robotics, and the department runs five subspecialty fellowships (endourology/stone disease, reconstructive/GU cancer survivorship, robotic oncology, prosthetic/sexual health, urologic oncology) reflecting deep subspecialty infrastructure. The program's stated mission is to produce "complete urologists" equipped for community practice, subspecialty fellowship, or surgeon-scientist academic careers, and graduate outcomes show a genuinely broad spread across academic medical centers, private/LUGPA groups, and military medicine. The emphasis on structured investigative training alongside high-volume, multi-site clinical exposure signals a program that values residents capable of sustained scholarly productivity in addition to operative competence.