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The week
This is a one-year fellowship, August 1 through July 31, across three hospitals: NYU Langone, whose Tisch Hospital and Kimmel Pavilion are attached to each other, NYC Health and Hospitals Bellevue, and the Manhattan VA. In the 2025-2026 fellowship year the operative volume was 750 cases. The fellow works with the independence of a junior faculty member, including attending call and booking cases. The exact weekly mix changes with the operative schedule, clinic demand, conferences, and academic deadlines.
| Day | Site | What happens |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | Manhattan VA, with overflow at Tisch | Grand rounds in the morning, then operating |
| Tuesday | NYU Langone | Clinic. Gender-affirming in the morning, urology in the afternoon |
| Wednesday | Tisch | Operating |
| Thursday | Tisch | Operating |
| Friday | Tisch | Operating |
Four operating days and one clinic day. That ratio is why the operative numbers are what they are. The service is built to run reconstruction rather than to fit reconstruction around a general urology practice.
Robotic surgery is not a block inside that week. It is how the service operates, on multi-port and single-port platforms, so the fellow is on the robot on most operating days. Open reconstruction runs in the same lists rather than in a separate rotation.
Genitourinary trauma comes through Bellevue, a New York State designated Level I Adult Trauma Center.
The fellow books the cases, makes the clinical decisions, and takes attending call at roughly the same frequency as the fellowship director.
A representative operative week
One real week, session by session. It is representative rather than fixed: the list changes with referrals, cancellations, and the academic calendar.
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 to 10:00 | Donor nephrectomy | Combined clinic with Plastic Surgery | Bladder neck reconstruction | Vaginoplasty | Salvage prostatectomy |
| 10:00 to 12:30 | Virtual clinic | Combined clinic with Plastic Surgery | Hemi-nephrectomy | Vaginoplasty | Diverticulectomy |
| 12:30 to 15:00 | Ureteral reimplantation | Urology clinic | Ureteral reconstruction with buccal mucosa graft | Vaginoplasty | Posterior urethroplasty |
| 15:00 to 18:00 | Virtual clinic | Urology clinic | Urethroplasty with buccal mucosa graft | Ileal conduit | Artificial urinary sphincter |
| 18:00 on | Optilume | Inflatable penile prosthesis |
Sixteen operating room cases in that week, twelve of them robotic. That ratio is the point of the earlier paragraph about the robot being the default rather than a block: it is three quarters of the operative week, across upper tract, bladder neck, urethral, genital, and prosthetic work rather than concentrated in one family.
Monday in this particular week is worth explaining, because it does not match the grid above. Monday is normally the Manhattan VA. That week the VA had no cases, so the fellow came to the Tisch list instead, which is why Monday here shows a donor nephrectomy and two virtual clinic blocks rather than a VA operating day. An empty list at one hospital does not become an empty day.
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