2023 Education Weekend

This update course commenced in 2011, to address a perceived need for senior trainees in both urology and paediatric surgery streams to be exposed to focused teaching in paediatric urology. Given the breadth of content involved, the course is delivered as a two-year programme covering the topics common to both training streams. Specified learning objectives have been created, informed by currently available curriculum documents from the two specialty Boards. These objectives are used to guide the nature and content of the educational sessions.

• to provide participants with a general understanding of the spectrum of congenital and acquired uropathology of childhood and implications in adulthood

• to involve participants in discussions of contemporary issues in the management of specific urogenital conditions in children

Each part of the two-year programme will run as a two-day online workshop, with “headline” sessions. Each session has a faculty, drawn from active practitioners in paediatric urology across Australia and augmented by experts from related disciplines where appropriate. Sessions may include expert lectures, panel discussions, small group exercises, interactive discussions, quizzes and point-counterpoint debates. The draft program is attached below. Note some variation may occur prior to the course weekend. 

Welcome: Bec Cooksey

Session 1: FETAL UROPATHIES

13:10: Rajay Rampersad: Antenatal renal anomalies including Antenatal megacystis

Session 2: OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHIES

13:40: Alison Scott: Congenital urethral obstruction

14.10: Bhavesh Patel VUJ and PUJ Obstruction

14.40: Discussion / Questions

Session 3: INFECTION & VUR

15:10: Liesel Porrett: UTI – investigations, prophylaxis

15.30: Bec Cooksey: Vesico-ureteric reflux: Surgical and non-surgical ssues

16:00 Glenda Moonsamy: Renal failure physician’s perspective

16.40: Bec Cooksey: Operating in renal failure- considerations

Session 5: STRUCTURAL ANOMALIES

13.00: Kim Aikins: Duplication anomalies

13.30: Grahame Smith: Exstrophy-epispadias complex

Session 6: URINARY TRACT PHYSIOLOGY

14.00: Bec Cooksey: Paediatric differences

Session 7: NEUROGENIC BLADDER

14.30: Neil Price: Early management and surveillance

15.00: Peter Borzi: Bladder augmentation / continence procedures

15.30: Discussion / Questions

Session 8: NON NEUROGENIC BLADDER DYSFUNCTION

15.45: Ani Deshpande: Case discussions

Session 9: URODYNAMIC STUDIES

16.20: Mike O'Brien: Practical application and interpretation

16.55 EVALUATION AND CLOSING