The Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center is part of, and the main referral facility, for the North Texas Veterans Health Care Network, that consists of the Fort Worth outpatient clinic, the Bonham, TX Clinic and Domiciliary, and the Dallas VAMC.  The Dallas VAMC is one of the largest VA Hospitals in the nation, and offers a full spectrum of all urological services.  The state-of-the-art operating rooms, including one open room for the Urology Service and one cystoscopy suite, ICU's and other central services moved recently into a new clinical addition.  The OR suites also house a lithotripsy facility with a Dornier MFL 5000 lithotriptor operated by the Urology Service.  Also on the premises is an acute and chronic care Spinal Cord Injury Center, which offers multidisciplinary care to a large number of veterans from North Texas and surrounding states.  The Urology Service operates a state-of-the-art video-urodynamic diagnostic facility within the SCI.  The Urology Clinic recently moved into a newly renovated space.  It offers cystoflouroscopy facilities, a urodynamics laboratory, two ultrasound units and a cystoscopy suite.  Serving several hundred thousand veterans from North Texas and surrounding states, the Urology Service at the Dallas VAMC offers an excellent teaching and learning environment.

The educational goals and objectives for the resident assigned to the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center:

At the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center (DVAMC), the Urology residents have exposure to a very busy outpatient clinical center as well as a busy inpatient surgical service. The operating room is active 5 days a week at DVAMC. Similar to the Parkland Hospital rotation, all Core Competencies are extremely important at the Dallas VA Medical Center as the residents are responsible for identifying patients who require urological interventions, explaining the process to the patients and their families, and carrying out the urological treatment plan during the inpatient hospitalization. Given the demographics of the DVAMC, that is mostly older male patients, there is certainly an emphasis on prostate cancer detection and treatment, and this is a stated educational objective of that rotation. Specifically, it is expected that residents will have a firm understanding of the diagnostic evaluation for prostate cancer as well as the various treatment options that are available. Other outpatient surgical procedures and diagnostic procedures are also carried out at the DVAMC including transrectal ultrasound guided biopsies, vasectomy, cystoscopy, and stent placement. In addition, the residents rotate on the Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Service providing urodynamic evaluations of patients with neurogenic bladder diseases and developing a treatment plan for patients seen in the SCI unit.

Residencies and Fellowships

For more information about the Department of Urology, contact:

Phone: 214-648-4765, FAX: 214-648-4789

Mailing Address: 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., J8.148, Dallas, TX 75390-9110