Annual educational expenses of European urology residents and the role of sponsorship in urology training: a survey-based analysis.

residency costs salary sponsorship training training costs urology residents

Journal

Central European journal of urology
ISSN: 2080-4806
Titre abrégé: Cent European J Urol
Pays: Poland
ID NLM: 101587101

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
received: 22 08 2022
revised: 02 10 2022
accepted: 13 11 2022
entrez: 16 2 2023
pubmed: 17 2 2023
medline: 17 2 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The aim of this article was to evaluate the personal monetary costs associated with the urology residency. The European Society of Residents in Urology (ESRU) designed a 35-item survey and distributed it via email and social media to urology residents in Europe.Monthly net salary and educational expenses (general expenses, literature, congresses and courses) and opinions regarding sponsorship and expenditure were evaluated. Comparisons between different countries and salary cut-offs were made. A total of 211 European urology residents completed the survey from 21 European countries. The median interquartile range (IQR) age was 30 (18-42) years and 83.0% were male. A total of 69.6% receive less than €1500 net per month and 34.6% spent ≥€3000 on education in the previous 12 months. Sponsorships came mainly from the pharmaceutical industry (57.8%), but 56.4% of trainees thought that the ideal sponsor should be the hospital/urology department. Only 14.7% of respondents stated that their salary is sufficient to cover training expenses, and 69.2% agreed that training costs have an influence on family dynamics. Personal expenses during training are high, are not sufficiently covered by the salary and impact family dynamics for a majority of residents in Europe. The majority thought that hospitals/national urology associations should contribute to the educational costs. For homogeneous opportunities across Europe, institutions should strive to increase sponsorship.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36794035
doi: 10.5173/ceju.2022.173
pii: 173
pmc: PMC9903171
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

418-428

Informations de copyright

Copyright by Polish Urological Association.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Auteurs

Mario Pereira-Lourenço (M)

Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Department of Urology, Coimbra, Portugal.

Taha Ucar (T)

Istanbul Medeniyet University, Department of Urology, Istanbul, Turkey.

Sven Nikles (S)

Sestre Milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Department of Urology, Zagreb, Croatia.

Karl H Pang (KH)

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.

João Almeida (J)

North Lisbon Hospital Center, Department Urology, Lisbon, Portugal.

Diego M Carrion (DM)

Torrejon University Hospital, Department of Urology, Madrid, Spain.
Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid, Spain.
Institute of Advanced Urologic Surgery (ICUA), Clinica CEMTRO, Madrid, Spain.

Francesco Esperto (F)

Campus Biomedico Foundation, University of Rome, Department of Urology, Rome, Italy.

Maria José Freire (MJ)

Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro Hospital Center, Department of Urology, Vila Real, Portugal.

David Karsza (D)

Hungarian Defence Force Medical Center, Department of Urology and Andrology, Budapest, Hungary.

Guglielmo Mantica (G)

Policlinico San Martino Hospital, University of Genova, Department of Urology, Genoa, Italy.

Angelika Mattigk (A)

University Hospital Ulm, Department of Urology, Ulm, Germany.

Moises Rodríguez Socarrás (M)

Institute of Advanced Urologic Surgery (ICUA), Clinica CEMTRO, Madrid, Spain.

Juan Gomez Rivas (JG)

Institute of Advanced Urologic Surgery (ICUA), Clinica CEMTRO, Madrid, Spain.
Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Deptartment of Urology, Madrid, Spain.

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