UroSchool is a ‘meeting’ of scientists who seek knowledge. They love knowledge so much that they decide to sit in front ot their screens for 4 days, from morning to night in order to listen carefully, think, share experiences, reflect on their mistakes, get evaluated and evaluate, and be exposed to their colleagues. UroSchool is an educational/training process based on medical thought far more thorough than simply ‘quoting’ knowledge. The Participants know that, when leaving UroSchool, they will have gained substantial knowledge out of this entire sharing experience; knowledge that they can use and apply in their medical practice from the very next day. And this makes them want to come back next year!
On the other hand, UroSchool Trainers are fully aware that their role is not the classical role of a teacher. It requires a lot of preparation, few ‘insightful’ slides, many questions posed to Trainees and, above all, an ‘open mind’ so as to be willing to listen to different views and probably even be convinced to revise their own as a result of a highly constructive and fruitful dialogue. Therefore, every Trainer needs to get thoroughly prepared, being fully conscious of the fact that their ‘students’ know a lot, anticipate a lot, demand a lot, evaluate strictly and definitely have set the bar very high.
UroSchool is hard to describe as a concept. It is a dynamic process that matures more and more every year as it ‘integrates’ with the needs of Trainees. Each participant attributes their own personal ‘color stroke’ to this learning process and contributes to the UroSchool’s progression.
