Dedicated to Education
The faculty members who comprise our teaching faculty dedicate the majority of their academic effort to teaching and mentoring the superior urology residents in our department. As we deliver high quality and compassionate patient care, we strive to create a training atmosphere centered on mutual respect, collegiality, humanism, and innovation.
Program Overview
Julie Riley, M.D., Program Director
The UAMS Urology Residency Training Program is an ACGME accredited five-year categorical residency. We match two residents into our training program each year, giving us a total of 10 residents.
The Department of Urology Residency Training Program participates in the National Residency Match Program (NRMP) and only accepts applications for our training program through Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS®).
There are three training sites in our program: The UAMS Medical Center, the John L. McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital, and Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Members of the teaching faculty are actively involved at each teaching site and provide omnipresent direct supervision to residents. Formal teaching conferences are conducted for two hours weekly following a four-year teaching calendar. Extensive outpatient, in-patient and operative experiences are achieved through rotations throughout our three teaching hospitals. All residents participate in clinical research experiences.
All applicants must have his/her application in before October 1 of the year preceding the PGY-1 year.
All applicants must have the following:
- Official transcript from medical school
- Dean’s letter
- Three letters of recommendation
- Personal statement
- USMLE scores
Step I and Step II Applicants are referred to the UAMS Graduate Medical Education Home Page. For further information pertaining to our urology residency program, please contact Shatonja Landers by email at SLanders@uams.edu.
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Values
Excellence: Be your best everyday. Demonstrate trustworthiness, hard work, mastery and integrity throughout the learning process
Community: Advocate for the needs of others, demonstrate respect for differences
Discipline: Use systematic approaches for consistent, enduring and repeated improvement.
Discovery: Be curious and open to possibilities within and beyond training
Responsibility: Be proud of your how, take ownership of your environment. Do what is right even when it is hard.
Vision
To be a desired training site to produce engaged, proficient, compassionate urologists willing to serve the community as life long adult learners
Mission
To develop well prepared physicians to enter practice with confidence and competency, able to provide highest level of care through empathy, knowledge, respect, engagement and ethical behavior with a priority to underserved communities.