Clinical research and quality improvement are integral activities to the residency.
Urology faculty have a competitive process for securing protected research time for scholarly activity of many scopes; medical students and residents participate in many of these projects and routinely meet with Dr. Jesse Sammon, Division Research Director. The MaineHealth Institute for Research (MHIR) provides the organizational framework for both laboratory-based and clinical research in urology. MHIR is housed in a free-standing research facility in Scarborough, Maine, and is part of a 50-acre academic medical campus that includes an ambulatory surgery center.
Residents have annual goals of completing a quality improvement project and submitting abstracts to local and national conferences. Conferences include:
- New England American Urological Association
- National American Urological Association
- Northern New England Association Annual Winter Meeting (Maine Urological Association)
- MaineHealth Maine Medical Center’s Bredenberg – Webber Symposium
- MaineHealth Maine Medical Center’s Costas Lambrew Research Retreat
- Society of Urologic Oncology
- Society of Women in Urology
- Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine & Urogenital Reconstruction
- Society of Pediatric Urology
- World Congress of Endourology
Recent areas of scholarly activity:
- Genetics and prostate cancer
- Genetics and renal cell carcinoma
- Complex renal masses and partial nephrectomy
- Barriers to care in bladder cancer
- Surgical and medical management of kidney stones and BPH
- Institutional cystectomy database
- AI in diagnosing prostate cancer
- Lactation support for surgeons
- Clinical outcomes
- Testicular torsion management and recurrence
- Improving urology quality of care for disadvantaged patients