Programs Highlights and Achievements

• Achieving a top-35 ranking among national urology programs in the annual U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Hospitals report (2012)
• Establishment of robotic and laparoscopic surgical programs
• Tertiary-care patient services, including experts in all subspecialties of urologic care
• Nationally- and internationally-renowned pediatric urology division
• Clinical research, funded by multi-million dollar grants from government, commercial and philanthropic sponsors
• Urologic education of residents, fellows, urologists, other professionals and consumers
• Creation of the Ministrelli Program for Urology Research and Education (MPURE) supports the research and education infrastructure of the department in perpetuity
• Establishment of the Peter and Florine Ministrelli Distinguished Chair for the Department of Urology

Special Procedures Offered

The Department of Urology encompasses expertise in treatment, state-of-the-art technology, dedication to education, and innovative research.

Doctors and staff provide a full array of urological diagnoses and treatments. Areas of specialization include:

• Male infertility
• Pediatric urology
• Prostate diseases
• Urologic cancers
• Urinary incontinence
• Endourology / laparoscopy / robotics
• Stone disease
• Sexual dysfunction
• Renal transplantation
• Prostheses surgery
• Genital and pelvic reconstruction

Technology

Approximately 150 robotic prostatectomies are performed a year by skilled robotic surgeons at Beaumont.

Education

International urologists from such countries as the Philippines, Zambia, Mongolia and the United Kingdom have had fellowships at Beaumont over the years. Often they return to their native countries and provide the Beaumont standards of healthcare to their patients and share their expertise with peers around the world.

The Department of Urology of Beaumont Hospital conducts an ACGME approved training program, with two residents at each level, for four years following one year of preparatory graduate training prior to entering the program. That year must be spent in general surgery in a program tailored to fit well with the four subsequent years of formal Urology.  The program is therefore 5 years in total. An integrated program for this purpose has been developed with the Department of Surgery at Beaumont Hospital.