Through hands-on training, mentorship, and surgical missions, we build lasting urologic expertise in the communities that need it most.
Our Approach
Our model is physician-to-physician. Experienced U.S.-trained urologic surgeons travel to partner institutions to engage directly with urology residents, practicing urologists, and medical trainees in clinical and surgical settings. Every mission is built around education, not just doing, but teaching.
This approach creates a multiplier effect. Each provider we train goes on to treat hundreds of patients and influence the next generation of healthcare professionals in their region. That is how a single mission becomes a lasting legacy.
UroMissionsWorks operates on a simple but powerful belief - the most sustainable way to improve healthcare in underserved communities is to invest in the people already serving them. Rather than stepping in as a temporary solution, we work alongside local urologic healthcare providers, training, mentoring, and equipping them with the knowledge and skills to deliver expert care long after our missions end.
What Happens During a Mission
No two missions are identical but all of them are grounded in the same core activities that make up the UroMissionsWorks experience:
Surgical Training
Our volunteer surgeons scrub in alongside local residents and physicians, performing advanced urologic procedures many of which are being offered at these institutions for the first time. Working side by side in the OR is the most direct form of skill transfer we offer.
Mentorship & Career Guidance
Formal mentorship relationships are a cornerstone of our work. UroMissionsWorks surgeons invest in the long-term professional development of the trainees and physicians they work with. Advising on career pathways, research directions, and clinical decision-making.
Grand Rounds & Clinical Case Reviews
During grand rounds, complex patient cases are reviewed in detail with residents and attending physicians. These sessions sharpen diagnostic thinking, reinforce clinical judgment, and introduce evidence-based approaches that increase the standard of care.
Didactic Lectures & Workshops
Structured teaching sessions cover key urologic principles, surgical techniques, and clinical topics. These workshops build foundational knowledge and provide residents with the academic grounding to complement their hands-on training.
Research Collaboration
UroMissionsWorks supports collaborative research between visiting faculty and local providers, helping with protocol development, manuscript writing, and academic publication. Strengthening research capacity is essential to the long-term growth of urologic healthcare in these regions.
Curriculum Development
Where needed, our team works with institutional partners to review and strengthen the urology training curriculum, ensuring that residents are prepared to meet the full scope of urologic health needs in their communities.
Building a Legacy of Better Care
The impact of UroMissionsWorks is not measured in a single visit or a single procedure, it is measured in the careers shaped, the skills mastered, and the patients who receive a higher standard of care because a physician in their community was trained, mentored, and empowered to deliver it.
Our primary training partners at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica and St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago represent the main pipeline of urological residency graduates serving the Caribbean. By investing in these institutions, UroMissionsWorks reaches not just today's trainees, but the patients and communities they will serve for decades to come.
Measurable outcomes from our work include peer-reviewed journal publications, presentations at international medical conferences, the expansion of specialized surgical procedure types available in-country, and the strengthening of professional networks between urologists across the hemisphere.
Research collaborations between UroMissionsWorks faculty and local physicians have produced articles in healthcare journals, contributing to the global body of urologic knowledge.
Trainees and partner physicians have presented their work at regional and international medical conferences, elevating the profile of urologic research from underserved regions.
Partner institutions now offer specialized urologic procedures that were not previously available in-country, directly improving outcomes for adult patients across the region.
By developing skilled local providers, UroMissionsWorks builds healthcare capacity that outlasts any single mission, creating a sds self-sustaining cycle of improvement within each institution.
Our Global Reach
UroMissionsWorks is active across three major regions with established training partnerships and an ongoing commitment to expanding our reach wherever the need exists.
The Caribbean is the foundation of UroMissionsWorks' mission. Our longstanding partnerships with the University of the West Indies have established a model of training and mentorship that continues to grow. UWI represents the primary training pipeline for urologists who serve communities throughout the entire Caribbean region.
Mission Updates
Stay up to date on UroMissionsWorks' most recent mission activities, training milestones, and program developments. This section is updated annually or following major mission events.
During our most recent mission to the University of the West Indies campuses in Kingston and St. Augustine, our team conducted surgical workshops, grand rounds, and mentorship sessions with urology residents and faculty. Advanced procedures were performed alongside local physicians, several of which represented firsts for those institutions. A full mission report is forthcoming.
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