Urology Residency Program

If you train in our program, you’ll understand the benefit of the experiences our curriculum provides; you’ll feel confident treating male and female adult and pediatric patients and handling the most challenging cases.

Our program is structured to give you clinical and operative experience while helping you develop your skills in literature review. Additionally, we know the importance of research and staying current in the field, so we enable you to undertake research during your time in our residency.

Our program enables you to treat patients in a variety of settings. Whether you’re administering care in a dedicated pediatric hospital, performing procedures in ambulatory centers or seeing patients in the private office environment, you’ll always be gaining experience that’s indispensable to your career.

You’ll train in health care facilities throughout the greater Buffalo area, and we ensure you’re ready to provide competent treatment for the full spectrum of urologic conditions.

Our faculty members are known throughout the region for their expertise. In our program, they’re known for the friendly, effective guidance they provide. The achievements our current residents attain during training and the fulfillment they experience throughout their careers speak to the high quality mentoring environment our faculty create.

Moreover, former trainees report that our program’s mentoring has made a difference in their careers.

As a resident in our program, you can expect to attend meetings that help you build critical evaluation skills and learn information that’s invaluable to developing your expertise in many areas of urology.

Our trainees say our conferences are thought-provoking gatherings that expand their knowledge and complement their hands-on training.

We’ll expose you to distinguished guest speakers and lectures that will expand your thinking and introduce you to developing ideas and key concepts about urologic medicine.

You can contribute to current developments in the field of urology. We’ll furnish you with solid knowledge of approaches used in basic science research, as well as clinical and translational research.

Publications by our faculty reflect the broad range of research interests encompassed by our department. Our residents and graduates share research studies with physicians and scientists worldwide through publications in leading academic journals. 

The University at Buffalo Department of Urology residency program strives to ensure that there is extensive resident education in all domains of urology.

The UB urology program has been fully accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) since 1985.