Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals Program

Program Identity & Fit

MCW's urology residency is a four-resident-per-year, five-year academic program built around three distinct clinical sites - Froedtert Hospital (tertiary academic care), Children's Wisconsin (the state's only freestanding pediatric hospital), and the Zablocki VA Medical Center (a high-volume regional referral VA) - supplemented by community and elective rotations that expose residents to the full breadth of urologic practice across urban, suburban and rural Wisconsin. As the largest urology program in the state, it draws on 19 fellowship-trained faculty covering the complete subspecialty spectrum (oncology, endourology, robotics, pediatric urology, female urology, andrology, neurourology, reconstructive urology), with structured research infrastructure including dedicated research nurses, biostatisticians, and active NIH/PCORI-funded multi-institutional collaboratives (PKIDS, MiBEC, CUGAR, testicular torsion consortium). The department explicitly frames its mission around clinical care, teaching, and research as parallel academic pillars, and states it prepares residents for either academic medicine or private practice rather than favoring one path. Distinctive features include protected Wednesday didactic mornings, dedicated urodynamics training, medical mission opportunities, and a broad PGY-1 general surgery foundation before four years of urology-focused training.