DECEMBER 2024
 Mary Brown, Steve Payne and Suzie Venn travelled to Harare,  Zimbabwe, for the COSECSA FCS (Fellowship) clinical exams. After arriving from different points on the globe, there was a formal briefing of the purpose of the exams and a standard setting meeting of an international group of examiners from 7 countries, before the exam the following day. Although there were no clinical cases, the exam covered a substantial amount of the COSECSA urology syllabus. All 5 candidates were successful and Nakavizya Janet Nshinka, from Ndola, won the gold medal for the best overall performance in the written and clinical tests. Many congratulations to her and all of the candidates presenting for this prestigious award.
2024 COSECSA FCS exam report from Harare
NOVEMBER 2024
 Read Suzie Venn's report of the trip she and Paul Anderson made to KCMC in Tanzania in November to upskill the local team in reconstructive surgery. There were some particularly challenging cases for Paul to address with Nc Ngowy, whilst Suzie helped upskill the rest of the team by helping mentor their taking of buccal mucosal grafts. In all, a very successful week with 15 cases being completed.
Suzie's report from the workshop
NOVEMBER 2024
  Read reports from Steve Payne's scoping visit to St. Paul's Hospital in Addis Ababa, Will Finch's and Matt Trail's stone workshop in Hawassa, and Shekhar Biyani's Emergency Urology Bootcamp carried out in association with colleagues from the Urology Society of Ethiopia (USE) in November 2024.
Prof. Masresha Soloman has clarified how Urolink can help in Addis, Matt and Will carried out 11 PCNLs in 4 days and Shekhar's siumulation-based bootcamp taught 11 residents how to manage common urological surgical emergencies. Both Will and Matt have written about how mid-career and early years consultants can help with Urolink projects.
Steve's scoping report Hawassa PCNL workshop report Will's mid-career Urolink experience
Report from the 1st Emergency Urology Bootcamp
AUGUST 2024
 Read Danielle Whiting’s report about her TUF Fellowship to KCMC for the first percutaneous nephrolithotomy workshop, between 1 and 12 July 2024. Dani emphasises the difficulties there are in bringing higher tech procedures into an LMIC healthcare environment, and the clinical challenges that await their application. She also experienced, in the raw, the differences there are between what we all expect within the NHS and what is available in circumstances that are even more resource depleted. Dani’s report is a great example of the benefits of a TUF fellowship to urologists at the beginning of their careers.
Read Dani's report
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