Clinical research and quality improvement are integral activities to the residency.
Urology faculty have a competitive process for securing protected research time for scholarly activity of many scopes; medical students and residents participate in many of these projects and routinely meet with Dr. Jesse Sammon, Division Research Director. The provides the organizational framework for both laboratory-based and clinical research in urology. MHIR is housed in a free-standing research facility in Scarborough, Maine, and is part of a 50-acre academic medical campus that includes an ambulatory surgery center.
Residents have annual goals of completing a quality improvement project and submitting abstracts to local and national conferences. Conferences include:
- New England American Urological Association
- National American Urological Association
- Northern New England Association Annual Winter Meeting (Maine Urological Association)
- AOA体育平台 Maine Medical Center鈥檚 Bredenberg 鈥� Webber Symposium
- AOA体育平台 Maine Medical Center鈥檚 Costas Lambrew Research Retreat
- Society of Urologic Oncology
- Society of Women in Urology
- Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction
- Society of Pediatric Urology
- World Congress of Endourology
Recent areas of scholarly activity:
- Genetics and prostate cancer
- Genetics and renal cell carcinoma
- Complex renal masses and partial nephrectomy
- Barriers to care in bladder cancer
- Surgical and medical management of kidney stones and BPH
- Institutional cystectomy database
- AI in diagnosing prostate cancer
- Lactation support for surgeons
- Clinical outcomes
- Testicular torsion management and recurrence
- Improving urology quality of care for disadvantaged patients