Main Line Health System-Bryn Mawr Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Main Line Health/Bryn Mawr Hospital's Urology Residency is a five-year, community-based ACGME program in suburban Philadelphia that builds broad general urologic competence through rotations across a multi-hospital network (Bryn Mawr, Lankenau, Riddle, Mercy) supplemented by dedicated pediatric urology at CHOP and urologic oncology exposure at Riddle. The program is explicitly structured to prepare graduates for practice in "whatever environment they choose"—general or subspecialty, community or academic—rather than funneling residents toward a single fellowship pathway, and it draws heavily from osteopathic medical schools among its resident and alumni body. Research exists through the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research and the Sharpe-Strumia Research Foundation (which favors Bryn Mawr-affiliated investigators), but alumni outcomes show most graduates entering community urology practice, with a smaller subset pursuing fellowships (oncology, endourology, reconstruction/sexual medicine, andrology). The two-per-year class size, small-service structure, and emphasis on high surgical volume in a community setting over a research-heavy academic identity suggest the program values well-rounded surgical competence and readiness for independent community practice over subspecialty or research pedigree.