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"Osteopathic urologists were more likely to work in private practice (58.4% vs 49.8%; P = .038) and in rural/nonmetropolitan areas (16.2% vs 8.7%; P = .002)," write the authors.

Grace Khaner and Melissa A. Laudano, MD, share their thoughts on the potential for expanding the use of vibegron early in treatment for OAB.

"We found that the location that prescribers were registered in, as well as their fellowship training, was significantly associated with higher vibegron prescription rates,” says Grace Khaner.

"There's a number of emerging modalities in the primary focal ablation space that are in trial at this time," says Kara L. Watts, MD.

"I think the highlights are the functional outcomes after a salvage focal ablation are favorable, definitely, compared to salvage radical prostatectomy, but the studies are quite limited in terms of real salvage focal ablation," says Kara L. Watts, MD.

For the survey question “Do 5-ARIs reduce serum PSA?” 8 (9.4%) respondents said “no” and 25 (29.4%) said “not sure.”

"There's...this concept of the virtualist; truly, the virtual urologist who has a potentially full-time telehealth practice but geared toward really delivering care, and these positions exist," says Kara L. Watts, MD.

"I think probably the area getting the most attention nowadays is advances in robotic and minimally invasive surgery," says Miriam Harel, MD.

"There's just a lot of active trials being studied, and hopefully, in the next 5 or 10 years, we'll see another handful of agents get approved and really start to make some headway in [NMIBC]," says Alexander I. Sankin, MD.

"In general, the majority of patients were very satisfied with the treatment," says Nitya E. Abraham, MD.

"I like to tell my patients, one of the first kind of treatments is actually reassurance," says Miriam Harel, MD.

“We want to serve as role models for pre-med students to come into the urology field [and] to explore what urology is, because there is a great need not only in general for urologists, but for Hispanic urologists. ,” says Pedro P. Maria, DO.

"There's just a tremendous opportunity for telehealth and being able to increase delivery to patients in these areas or at least reduce their amount of travel time to get to see a urologist based on where they live," says Kara L. Watts, MD.

"Probably the most common scenario that we get a lot of parental concerns about are the patients that only have bedwetting, and it just never went away," says Miriam Harel, MD.

“Then finally, when we asked about Xiaflex, it was only two-thirds of programs, less than 70% of programs listed that they were having the residents exposed to Xiaflex,” says Justin Loloi, MD.

"It's been pretty consistent that our second-year urology residents are really suffering," says Amanda C. North, MD.

“I am lucky to work for a health care system that believes in serving the patients of the Bronx,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

“Learning how to disengage from stuff that can be pretty toxic and engaged in the stuff that's most meaningful, I think makes our lives better,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

“I couldn't change the fact that it was going to be a few months until I had help. But I could change my own response to the situation,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

“I think one of the hottest topics for advocacy right now relates to reimbursement for telemedicine,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

“Although the future of AI within science is uncertain, disclosure of the use of AI is an excellent first step to balance academic integrity with disruptive innovation,” the authors write.

"In 2021, we were finally able to demonstrate a statistically significant difference in burnout between men and women in urology with women having much higher burnout rates," says Amanda C. North, MD.

“After I finished my fellowship, I came straight back to Montefiore. I was very drawn to taking care of the patients in the Bronx,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

“There are a lot of social determinants of health as it relates to urge urinary incontinence,” says Joseph Kim, MD.

"Our main finding was that participants who experienced food insecurity in the past year were at 55% increased odds of reporting at least 1 episode of urge urinary incontinence in the past month, compared with those who have not experienced food insecurity," says Joseph Kim, MD.

“To convince the doctors pre pandemic of telemedicine was pretty difficult, but now we know that telemedicine works and the physicians are embracing it,” says Lisa J. Finkelstein, DO, FACOS.

“The cost and the burden of being able to find permissions and licenses within different states to continue to offer these services once the waivers end will essentially negate all of these services,” says Kara L. Watts, MD.

“For a lot of settings, a lot of patients, and in a lot of domains within urology, audio visits are equivalent in terms of satisfaction and outcomes to video visits,” says Kara L. Watts, MD.

“Allowing the waiver to continue indefinitely would be a tremendous win for telehealth for both sides, the patients and the health care providers,” says Kara L. Watts, MD.

“Even though we set some priority areas, we also allow practicing urologists to make suggestions for things that they want to know about,” says Amanda North, MD.