The Department of Urology offers a fully accredited urology residency training program with a history of training excellent clinical urologists. The program is conducted by six full-time faculty members under the director of Dr. Donald Johnson, director of Education, with rotations through the UAMS Medical Center, The Central Arkansas Veterans Health Care System and Arkansas Children's Hospital.

The program consists of PGY1 year in general surgery at UAMS followed by four years of urology residency. 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: UAMS Medical Center, VA and Children's hospitals. All residents participate in clinical research experiences.

All applicants must have his/her application in before October 15 of the year preceding the PGY 1 year. Separate applications through ERAS must be made for the PGY 1 year in general surgery and the PGY 2 year in Urology.

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 at www.uams.edu/GME/ and may contact Paula Brown at 501-686-5241 or e-mail at Paula.A.Brown@uams.edu.