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Let me address several of the comments that have come up from an inside perspective (I am a resident at UCI).

1) "seems to have not finished the transition from ahlering as interim chair to clayman as chair"

[b]- what?? this transition was complete long ago. There are no better chairman than Clayman - he is not only a urolapgod and academician, but a huge advocate. He has finished building the program and has everyone in place he wants - 3 oncologists, 1 female/neuro, 1 infertility, 2 peds, 2 general.[/b]

2) "One thing I did notice is that they have some kind of mini-residency program for urologists; I don't know how that affects the residents. Might take the focus away from them. "
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The miniresidency has no impact on the residents. this is something Dr McDougall and the fellows do with outside urologists.[/b]

3) "It felt like residents were not adequately trained in open cases. The residents seemed to get trained in robotic prostates before learning how to do open ones. I don't want to be in practice and have to call in another urologist when I need to convert my robotic case to an open one because I dont feel comfortable doing open cases."


[b]There are plenty of open cases - as a 2nd yr you spend 6months on Kaiser doing a ton of open cases, as a 3rd yr you do several hundred open peds cases, and as a chief you are doing both robotic and open. The chief gets a lot of console time - the last chief sat at least 30 times on the console. The most recent graduate has done 70+ robotic cases already in private practice.[/b]

4) "there was a real deficit in the peds experience"

I have had an amazing peds rotation. I have done 150 cases, most open. 40+ pyeloplasties, 50+ reimplants, tons of hernia/pexies etc. right now we rotate at childrens hospital OC, Kaiser and UCI. when Dr Khoury starts in 1 month it may change. Oh did I mention Dr Khoury is on the short list of world's best pediatric urologists - look him up. he runs the largest peds urology practice in the world at Sick Children's in Toronto and will be taking over our program.