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Review
. 2014 Nov 14:2:119.
doi: 10.3389/fped.2014.00119. eCollection 2014.

How Pediatric Urology Fellowships in the United States are Funded

Brent Walter Snow  1 , M Chad Wallis  1
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How Pediatric Urology Fellowships in the United States are Funded

Brent Walter Snow et al. Front Pediatr. .

Abstract

Background: We desired to discover how pediatric urology fellowship positions in the United States were funded.

Methods: Approved pediatric urology fellowship directors (25) were contacted by e-mail and asked how the 2 years of fellowship were funded at their institutions.

Results: The response rate of the e-mail questions was 100%. The clinical year of the fellowship was 100% hospital-funded in 88% of the 25 fellowships. The second, American board of urology (ABU)-required year was 100% hospital-funded in only 44% of the fellowships. Clinical funds generated by pediatric urology faculty provided funding for 24% of the fellows and institutes and grants funded 20% of the fellowship positions for the second year. Thirty-two percent of the fellowship positions have supplemental funding through charges generated from the fellow's clinical activities in patient care.

Conclusion: All but three hospitals fund 100% of the clinical year of pediatric urology fellowship. Sources of funding for the second, ABU-required year vary widely among fellowship programs in the United States.

Keywords: fellowship funding; fellowship training; graduate medical education; pediatric urology; pediatric urology fellowships; revenue from pediatric urology fellows.

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