UrologiePub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-07-15DOI: 10.1007/s00120-026-02889-2
Anne-Karoline Ebert
{"title":"[Patient transitioning is only successful if paediatric urology remains a part of urology].","authors":"Anne-Karoline Ebert","doi":"10.1007/s00120-026-02889-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00120-026-02889-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thanks to the excellent care of complex urogenital malformations during the neonatal period and childhood available today, an increasing number of patients require competent long-term care in adulthood. Ideally, urology takes responsibility for the transition of these individuals, who have a lifelong need for urological follow-up care. Only if adequate knowledge is available and maintained will these patients receive appropriate care throughout adult life. This care is demanding and must be reimbursed appropriately. Solid basic training in urology, as well as specialized additional training in paediatric and adolescent urology, can help to train competent experts.</p>","PeriodicalId":29782,"journal":{"name":"Urologie","volume":" ","pages":"926-933"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148449724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UrologiePub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-06-09DOI: 10.1007/s00120-026-02853-0
Christian P Meyer, Rainer Treichel, Patrick Büttner, Yvonne Schmidgen, Stephan Degener, Jost Hohage, Simone Hyun, Friedrich-Carl von Rundstedt
{"title":"[Urological training wards - a viable solution to the shortage of healthcare professionals?]","authors":"Christian P Meyer, Rainer Treichel, Patrick Büttner, Yvonne Schmidgen, Stephan Degener, Jost Hohage, Simone Hyun, Friedrich-Carl von Rundstedt","doi":"10.1007/s00120-026-02853-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00120-026-02853-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background/objectives: </strong>The pressing shortage of professionals in urology increases pressure on medical education and recruitment. Interdisciplinary teaching wards (ITWs) may offer a model to enhance clinical training, promote interdisciplinary competencies, and thereby help mitigate scarcity. This review explores the concept, evidence, structure, and specific application in urology.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>Systematic literature search of PubMed, Google Scholar, and educational databases up to mid-2025.</p><p><strong>Inclusion criteria: </strong>reports on interdisciplinary/interprofessional teaching wards, clinical teaching units, clerkships, especially in surgical fields and urology; data on structure, outcomes, implementation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Historically, teaching wards arose from clinical teaching hospitals and interprofessional education in the 20th century. Their structure typically includes multidisciplinary teams, rotating learners, supervised patient care, and curriculum with outcomes and feedback. Evidence shows benefits in clinical skills, teamwork, patient satisfaction, and a possible reduction of errors and costs. However, urology-specific data are sparse. In urology, clerkships, electives and subinternships incorporate certain aspects, but fully developed ITWs in urology are rare.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>ITWs hold significant promise for improving education and may contribute to alleviating the workforce shortage in urology. More empirical studies focused on urology are required, especially randomized controlled trials, economic analyses, and implementation studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":29782,"journal":{"name":"Urologie","volume":" ","pages":"973-978"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13503489/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148206390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UrologiePub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-07-31DOI: 10.1007/s00120-026-02904-6
Julia Nebe, Friedrich Moll, Matthis Krischel
{"title":"[Women in the history of urology-pioneers between professionalization, (in)visibility, and remembrance].","authors":"Julia Nebe, Friedrich Moll, Matthis Krischel","doi":"10.1007/s00120-026-02904-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00120-026-02904-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29782,"journal":{"name":"Urologie","volume":" ","pages":"979-983"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13503422/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148631360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UrologiePub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-07-06DOI: 10.1007/s00120-026-02884-7
Matthias Albrecht, Jonas Loff, Tim Hoffmann
{"title":"[The environmentally friendly hospital : Perspectives and practical examples for urology].","authors":"Matthias Albrecht, Jonas Loff, Tim Hoffmann","doi":"10.1007/s00120-026-02884-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00120-026-02884-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The healthcare sector is one of the most resource-intensive industries in modern societies, contributing substantially to greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, and waste generation. The concept of the environmentally friendly hospital integrates ecological sustainability, economic efficiency, and patient welfare into a holistic framework. This article examines the key dimensions of sustainable hospital management-energy efficiency, sustainable building concepts, environmentally responsible procurement, environmentally responsible medical procedures, as well as waste and water management-and highlights their specific relevance to urology. Urology departments exhibit a distinctive sustainability profile due to their high consumption of single-use materials, water-intensive procedures such as urological endoscopy, and the use of energy- and resource-intensive surgical robots. Sustainably oriented departments can achieve measurable improvements in clinical outcomes, staff satisfaction, and operating costs.</p>","PeriodicalId":29782,"journal":{"name":"Urologie","volume":" ","pages":"959-964"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148399557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UrologiePub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-07-30DOI: 10.1007/s00120-026-02885-6
Hendrik Borgmann
{"title":"[Use of artificial intelligence in clinical practice and hospitals].","authors":"Hendrik Borgmann","doi":"10.1007/s00120-026-02885-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00120-026-02885-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly evolving from a research technology into a tool for everyday clinical practice. While early applications primarily focused on medical image analysis, generative AI systems and large language models are now available for a wide range of clinical and administrative tasks. These include medical documentation, literature review, guideline-based knowledge management, patient communication, and workflow optimization. At the same time, diagnostic and therapeutic applications continue to evolve. AI-assisted systems support radiological and pathological image interpretation, risk stratification, and clinical decision-making processes. Despite considerable opportunities, important limitations remain. AI hallucinations, algorithmic bias, data protection requirements, and regulatory considerations necessitate continuous human oversight and critical evaluation. Therefore, the long-term success of AI will depend not only on technological performance but also on its responsible integration into existing healthcare structures. This review provides a practice-oriented overview of current and future AI applications in urology and discusses opportunities, limitations, and prerequisites for safe implementation in clinical practice and hospital care.</p>","PeriodicalId":29782,"journal":{"name":"Urologie","volume":" ","pages":"942-947"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148621613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UrologiePub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-08-26DOI: 10.1007/s00120-026-02901-9
Susanne Krege
{"title":"Zum 78. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie e. V.","authors":"Susanne Krege","doi":"10.1007/s00120-026-02901-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00120-026-02901-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29782,"journal":{"name":"Urologie","volume":"65 Suppl 2","pages":"21-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148833031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UrologiePub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-07-06DOI: 10.1007/s00120-026-02883-8
Annette Güldenring
{"title":"[Diagnosis or encounter : On the medical perception of gender, transgender and nonbinarity].","authors":"Annette Güldenring","doi":"10.1007/s00120-026-02883-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00120-026-02883-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article reflects on the significance of medical perception in encounters with gender, trans identity and nonbinarity. Starting from the role of urology in the medical care of gender-diverse people, it shows that gender-affirming and gender-modifying treatments cannot be understood solely as somatic-medical or organ-focused interventions. They are part of complex developmental processes in which bodily well-being, gendered self-experience, social participation, sexuality, quality of life and other dimensions are closely intertwined. Gender is understood as a multidimensional self-experience that cannot be conclusively defined. Medical classifications may provide orientation, but they also carry the risk of reducing diversity to deviation or treatment need. The article juxtaposes different concepts of perception and shows that medical perception is never neutral, but is shaped by assumptions, affects, biographical experiences, cultural norms, and professional routines. This is particularly relevant in urology, where clinical practice involves intimate body regions that are highly sensitive in terms of gender and individually significant. Medical responsibility does not begin with intervention, but already in the way the patient is first encountered. In the article, the author argues for a culture of perception that pauses between first impression and clinical assessment, reflects on its interpretations and takes patients' gendered self-description seriously within a dialogical encounter.</p>","PeriodicalId":29782,"journal":{"name":"Urologie","volume":" ","pages":"934-941"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148391804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UrologiePub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-08-24DOI: 10.1007/s00120-026-02891-8
Susanne Krege
{"title":"Dem Leben eine Zukunft geben.","authors":"Susanne Krege","doi":"10.1007/s00120-026-02891-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00120-026-02891-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29782,"journal":{"name":"Urologie","volume":"65 9","pages":"923-925"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148814186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UrologiePub Date : 2026-09-01Epub Date: 2026-08-26DOI: 10.1007/s00120-026-02903-7
{"title":"Abstracts des 78. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Urologie e. V.","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/s00120-026-02903-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00120-026-02903-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29782,"journal":{"name":"Urologie","volume":"65 Suppl 2","pages":"25-189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148833010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}