UroSchool is a meeting of people who constantly seek knowledge. They love knowledge so much that they decide to let their families and close their private offices for 4 days, and get together in a special indoor venue from 9 am to 10 pm in order to listen carefully, think, share experiences, reflect on their mistakes, get evaluated and evaluate, and be exposed to their colleagues. UroSchool is an educational/training process based on medical thought far more thorough than simply ‘quoting’ knowledge. The Participants know that, when leaving UroSchool, they will have gained substantial knowledge out of this entire sharing experience; knowledge that they can use and apply in their medical practice from the very next day. And this makes them want to come back next year!
On the other hand, UroSchool Trainers are fully aware that their role is not the classical role of a teacher. It requires a lot of preparation, few ‘insightful’ slides, many questions for the trainees and, above all, an ‘open mind’ so as to be willing to listen to different views and probably even be convinced to revise their own as a result of a highly constructive and fruitful dialogue. Therefore, every Trainer needs to get thoroughly prepared, given that their ‘students’ know a lot, anticipate a lot, evaluate strictly and definitely set the bar very high.
UroSchool is hard to describe as a concept. It is a dynamic process that matures more and more every year to meet the needs of its 150 participants; it is actually the participants themselves who determine the content of the UroSchool program. And that is exactly why the number of trainees is limited because we want every one of you to have the time you deserve to participate, interact and give your own ‘color’ to this learning process.
