Dr. Amanda North
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first heard Sep 2024
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So she's going to be writing up these questions. They were included on the resident and fellow census and the advanced practice provider census also. So we should have some really interesting data from her in the future. But she had asked us if we would include them on the census as part of a grant she received, and we were happy to do so.
But it would have been interesting to know if this is spiraling out of control because we all stopped knowing how to behave when we stayed home from COVID for too long, or if this has always been the case. We do have older data on sexual harassment of women urologists back from the 2017 census. We asked those questions. It may have been 2018.
I may have my data wrong, but it was one of those two years we asked about sexual harassment. But it was specifically just sexual harassment. It wasn't specifically patient driven sexual harassment. So this is really interesting data. And I hope we're able to get follow up data in five years on this to see hopefully we're moving the trend in the right direction.
Well, and as we hop on the Dr. Krauser bandwagon, we've been teaching a course on burnout at the annual meeting. And a couple of years ago, we shifted the focus from burnout to wellness. And we added Dr. Krauser as an additional faculty member. And she actually helped us develop these questions for the census.
So it's funny that we all mentioned her, but she does deserve a lot of credit because she was involved in getting these questions on the census this year. Yeah.
Well, and wearing loops too, right? As a pediatric urologist, we know that the traditional loops are terrible for your neck. There is a lot of concern that the ergonomics of the instrumentation for laparoscopic and robotic surgery is particularly poorly designed for smaller surgeons, which includes a lot of women. I'm a smaller surgeon myself with smaller hands.
And so I think one of the concerns was to really understand the impact of the instrument design. I know we don't get into it that much, deeply on this census, but the impact of those instrumentations on women. And as we see, the women had higher rates of ergonomic injury. Great.
No, just a last minute plug for people to fill out the census this year. It will be open through the end of September. The census opens at the annual meeting every year and it closes on September 30th. We have a new head of statistical services at the AUA, Lex Hessel, who is amazing because she comes to us with a background in survey design.
And so she's been really helpful in terms of getting us to think about how to word questions in a way that will maximize the value of the responses we get. We've also democratized the way that we solicit questions so that there will be an email sent out with a form that people can fill out online if they have ideas for future census questions.
We do keep a rotating schedule of some of the topics that we think should be asked, but we're pretty open-minded and especially for hot topics. Prior authorization was a hot topic this year because our legislative affairs people wanted it. But as you mentioned, locums is another really hot topic that we're interested in.
So we love getting ideas from people from all various specialties and practice settings because I think it's really important for us in the future to have everyone's voice heard on the census, both in terms of the questions that we ask and then, of course, in responding to the census. So that'll be my little plug.
Yeah, so we just asked last year about OAB and stress incontinence. We are learning over time, because I've made all the mistakes you can make, that grouping topics together often makes sense. Hematuria and all of the cancers that come from hematuria have been grouped together. So kidney and Bladder cancer, for example, into one setting, trying to understand uptake of guidelines.
So are people, you know, there was a microhematuria guideline that came out recently. Are people following that? We'd like to know. So, you know, assessing the utility of AUA educational tools. We did ask last year about torsion treatment because we know in pediatric urology, Having patients transferred from long distances with torsion can be very detrimental to the future of their testicle.
So we do have a whole rotating schedule that our AUA staff does a really good job of keeping us on track with that for specifically for clinical topics. And then we do put some business and legislative related stuff in every year. So Maslach burnout inventory is every five years. So that'll next be on in 2026. So keep a lookout for that because that's always an important one. Thank you.
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