University of Maryland Program

Program Identity & Fit

This academic urology program based at the University of Maryland Medical Center trains residents across a multi-site network spanning UMMC, the Baltimore VA Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital (pediatric urology), and Baltimore Washington Medical Center, giving residents exposure to indigent/safety-net, veteran, private-practice, and pediatric populations within a single curriculum. The program builds graded autonomy explicitly into its structure, with residents performing cystoscopy, TURPs, and eventually unsupervised major surgery as they progress from URO-1 through chief (URO-4) year, and the chief resident holds real administrative control over OR scheduling and service operations. A dedicated six-month research rotation with a funded lab (Dr. Siddiqui) and resident-driven project design signals genuine investment in research training, though the program frames its ultimate goal as producing urologists capable of any career path - private practice, academic medicine, or research. The program values technical independence, ethical grounding, and adaptability, and structures rotations deliberately to ensure equal exposure across chief residents and clinical sites.