11. General Goals and Objectives

The program utilizes the stated goals and objectives of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons as the basis for its training.
It also utilizes the documents developed by the RCPSC and by McMaster with respect to training in core areas in surgery.
The objectives stated in sections 12 and 13 are meant to complement these and be more specific to the rotations.
In December of 2001, a meeting was held with the Division of Urology, the CEO’s of both hospital corporations, the hospital Chiefs of Surgery and the Chairman of Department of Surgery.
At this meeting it was agreed that the lead hospital for the Urology Residency Program would be St. Joseph’s Healthcare and that Hamilton Health Sciences would also play a pivotal role in the development of the training program.
Further to this St. Joseph’s has gone forward with recruitment to bring its complement of urologists to 6 individuals with all of the faculty geographic full time. Hamilton Health Sciences has recruited an additional urologist with expertise in uro-oncology who is geographic full time and this brings their complement to 5 with 2 being geographic full time.

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