Key Topics
Key topics are those that all trainees will cover by CCT and will be able to manage independently, including complications. These are also referred to as essential topics.
- Manage the patient presenting with stone disease
- Manage the patient presenting with acute or chronic abdominal pain referable to the urinary tract
- Manage patients presenting with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS)
- Manage the patient presenting with acute or chronic urinary retention
- Manage the patient presenting with haematuria
- Manage the patient presenting with urethral stricture
- Manage the patient presenting with urinary tract infections
- Manage benign & malignant lesions of male genitalia skin
- Manage patients presenting with a scrotal swelling
- Manage the patient presenting with urinary incontinence
- Manage the patient with prostate cancer
- Manage the patient with bladder cancer
- Manage the patient with renal cancer
- Manage the patient presenting with infertility, ejaculatory disorders etc
- Manage the patient presenting with erectile dysfunction
- Manage the patient presenting with penile deformity, priapism, penile fracture etc
- Manage the common urological conditions of childhood
- Manage the patient presenting with renal failure
- Manage the patient with multiple injuries
- Manage trauma of the renal tract according to accepted protocols
All urologists will also possess the professional skills and behaviour associated with consultant surgical practice in the UK (including those outlined in Good Medical Practice)