3rd Annual UCSD Urology Postgraduate Course

Our symposium will focus on urologic oncology, urinary stone disease and innovative minimally invasive surgery advances such as single incision surgery and natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES). The 2010 course will include live surgery feeds from the UC San Diego Medical Center operating rooms to the conference center where we will have concurrent faculty critiques and audience discussion. We will include ample time for audience questions and will include discussions of challenging clinical scenarios in each section of the course.

Program Highlights

• Live Surgery!
• Robotic Radical Prostatectomy
• Partial Nephrectomy and Radical Cystectomy
• NOTES and Single Incision Laparoscopy
• Metabolic Stone Evaluations
• Prostate Cancer
• Bladder Cancer
• Optimizing Ureteroscopy and Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy

OBJECTIVES:
At the completion of the course the participants should be able to:

• Apply risk assessment methods to newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients and bladder cancer patients
• Assist patients diagnosed with localized prostate, bladder or kidney cancer in comparing and contrasting their options for treatment
• Identify the appropriate candidates for active surveillance as well as methods of patient follow-up and indications/contraindications for treatment
• Discuss advances in robotic radical prostatectomy and radiation therapy techniques
• Discuss advances in the treatment of urinary bladder and kidney cancer
• Evaluate and apply the available chemotherapy and biologic therapy regimens for patients with high-risk prostate, bladder and kidney cancer
• Demonstrate knowledge of the appropriate metabolic evaluation of patients with urinary stone disease
• Describe the indications and technical advances in the endoscopic management of urinary stone disease