For applicants

Research expectations

The floor is explicit. GURS re-verification requires at least one publication or a national or international meeting abstract from the fellow’s work in original research. The listed qualifying meetings are the AUA, an AUA Section meeting, SIU, or EAU. Book chapters and review articles do not count.

A chapter may still be worth writing. It does not satisfy this requirement.

The fellow and mentor should identify at least one qualifying project early enough to complete regulatory review, data access, analysis, authorship decisions, drafting, and submission before the relevant deadline. Each project needs a named question, dataset, regulatory status, accountable analyst, authorship plan, target meeting or journal, and next deliverable.

Use approved institutional systems for patient-level data. Confirm IRB status and permission for external data sharing before abstraction or transfer. Preserve the manuscript proof, abstract acceptance, or meeting program needed for GURS re-verification.

The program should review the qualifying-output plan at regular mentoring meetings. More projects do not repair a missing qualifying project.