Indiana University School of Medicine Program

Program Identity & Fit

IU School of Medicine's urology residency is the sole tertiary academic urology program in Indiana, serving as the definitive referral center for a state and surrounding region of over 7 million people, with a five-year structure including six months of general surgery internship. Training spans six sites with distinct identities - University Hospital for uro-oncology and robotics (site of the world's largest contemporary retroperitoneal testis cancer surgery), Riley Hospital for Children for complex pediatric reconstruction (top-five nationally ranked), Methodist for stone disease and BPH, and Eskenazi/VA for general urology and trauma - producing operative volumes above the 90th percentile nationally in complex index cases like cystectomy, RPLND, PCNL and HoLEP. Research is structurally embedded rather than incidental: residents complete a mandatory project annually, receive two dedicated three-month flex rotations largely for research, and work within established databases in testis and prostate cancer, laparoscopic and robotic surgery, alongside subspecialty fellowship pathways in pediatric urology and sexual health research. The program explicitly frames its mission as preparing residents for either academic or community practice, reflecting a high-volume, tertiary referral identity built around complex reconstructive and oncologic surgery rather than a narrow subspecialty or primary-care focus.