“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”

—Milton Berle

The Office of Education for the AUA is committed to providing the most opportunities and options to help urology residents and residency programs. Research is the basis of our action. We survey our members including residents to understand your needs and concerns, but also reach out to residency programs to ensure that we are strong partners and understand their environment, resources, and systems. The AUA and the Society of Academic Urologists also work together to align new initiatives and ensure that our collective efforts are complementary and not competitive.

The AUA’s residency education options are strong and growing. Here is our recommended list of action items to help residents take the maximum advantage of educational resources:

1. Join the AUA for the incredible amount of member benefits, especially around education.
2. Download the AUAUniversity app. This member-benefit app allows you to search across all of AUA’s clinical library of content including AUA Guidelines, The Journal of Urology^®, the surgical video library, the AUA Update Series, and the Core Curriculum. The AUA Core Curriculum, in particular, continues to be the cornerstone of residency education from the AUA. This content is reviewed annually and includes teaching videos and PowerPoint presentations.
3. Subscribe to the AUAUniversity podcast and YouTube channel. These free resources are available to all and provide an easily accessible way to stay current on clinical discussions.
4. Participate in AUA’s Annual Meeting. The AUA Annual Meeting is an experience. As a resident, come see the leaders and experts in the field present at the plenary and courses. Learn directly from those who are changing urological practice. Take advantage of the networking and social events to meet new colleagues and seek out mentors. The AUA2023 Annual Meeting offered over 490 hours of education. If you were not able to join all of those sessions, the virtual program is available to Annual Meeting registrants until August 31, 2023.
5. Subscribe to the SASP (Self-assessment Study Program) and the AUA Update Series. These tried and true resources continue to support residents’ needs. If you were not aware, the SASP app provides a feature that allows residency program directors to assign a deck of questions to a resident and for the resident to send back their answers. This tool was designed to help support specific areas of educational need.
6. Participate in the brand new AUA Intern Academy. The AUA Intern Academy is a new initiative created specifically to meet the needs of early-career urology residents (primarily postgraduate year 1) and will include both in-person Hands-on Skills Training (June 10-11) and virtual components (July-September). The aim of this new program is to apply standardized and foundational urological skills to the first year of residency practice in order to improve clinical proficiency and promote patient safety. For more information or to register, go to AUAUniversity (https://auau.auanet.org).
7. Subscribe to the brand new AUA Leadership and Business podcast. This new podcast launched in January 2023 and focuses on content to help residents transition into practice and for all urologists to be successful leaders and managers.

The AUA Office of Education truly understands the reality of limited resources and time and is working on new ways to offer Residency Programs these resources with discounts and in an efficient way to reduce administrative burdens.

If you have any questions or recommendations, please email education@auanet.org. We welcome an open dialogue with our members.