Medical Students' Exposure to Urology in European Medical Schools: Historical Review and Current Proposals

摘要

The Bolonia convergence programme will be finished in 2010. The objective is to standardise the teaching programme of all European medical faculties and thus distribute the 500 credits of the medical curricula in a similar way in all countries. Most proposals for this project come from basic science (first cycle), internal medicine (second cycle), and emerging new disciplines. For the moment, we are not aware of any proposal coming from urological representatives. We suppose that urology professors all around Europe are reporting their opinions and suggestions to their local deans, who will reach the academic authorities through the Deans Conference for a final consensus programme. Several academic institutions are simultaneously collaborating on this project and educational challenge