2025 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.

2025 Education is being changed and feedback is being sought as to how best to deliver the information to delegates. Feel free to reach out to the SPUNZA team with your suggestions!

• 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

Registration costs AUD$50 

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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: Liesel Porrett / Kim Aikins

Session 1: FETAL UROPATHIES

1310: Antenatal renal anomalies 

1330: Antenatal Interventions / Foetal Surgery and outcomes

Session 2: OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHIES

1400: Congenital urethral obstruction

1420:  VUJ and PUJ Obstruction

14.40: Discussion / Questions

Session 3: INFECTION & VUR

1500: UTI and Bladder dysfunction

1515:  Vesico-ureteric reflux: Surgical and non-surgical issues

1545: Renal failure physician’s perspective

16.15: Surgical options in renal failure - considerations

Session 5: STRUCTURAL ANOMALIES

13.10: Duplication anomalies

13.30: Exstrophy-epispadias complex

Session 6: URINARY TRACT PHYSIOLOGY

14.00: Paediatric differences

Session 7: NEUROGENIC BLADDER

14.30: Early management and surveillance

15.00: Bladder augmentation / continence procedures

15.30: Urodynamics and Uroflow

Session 8: NON NEUROGENIC BLADDER DYSFUNCTION

15.45  Case discussions

Session 9: ROBOTICS IN UROLOGY

16.15: Introducing a robotics program, paediatric consideration

16.55 EVALUATION AND CLOSING