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Die urologische Facharztausbildung steht unter der Herausforderung globaler Trends in der chirurgischen Ausbildung, den zunehmenden technologischen Entwicklungen, der Subspezialisierung des Faches und der Arbeitszeitregelungen fur Arzte. Aktuell existiert kein standardisiertes internationales Curriculum, so dass grose Unterschiede in der Ausbildung zum Facharzt fur Urologie bestehen. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, den Stand der urologischen Facharztausbildung im internationalen Vergleich abzubilden. Eine selektive Literaturrecherche wurde durchgefuhrt, um einen Uberblick uber die Vielfalt der internationalen urologischen Facharztausbildung zu geben. Hierbei wurden folgende Schlusselworter verwendet: „urology, training, residents“. Die urologische Weiterbildung in Deutschland unterliegt im Vergleich zu anderen Landern wenigen inhaltlichen, zeitlichen sowie raumlichen Vorgaben. Als wesentlicher Nachteil wird das Fehlen eines strukturierten Curriculums sowohl in Deutschland als auch in den anderen europaischen Landern angesehen. In Deutschland wird unter den Assistenzarzten neben der zunehmenden Arbeitsverdichtung die begrenzte operative Ausbildung und die fehlende Flexibilitat in der Familien- oder Forschungsplanung bemangelt. Strukturierte und validierte Kompetenzbewertungen anstatt reiner Mindestzahlen durchgefuhrter Operationen konnten die chirurgische Ausbildung verbessern. Eine objektive bundesweite Prufung als Facharztprufung ware fur ein internationales Benchmarking der Weiterbildung notwendig.

The training of residents in urology is challenged by global trends in surgical education, increasing technological developments, subspecialization of the field and working hour regulations for physicians. Currently, there is no standardized curriculum in Europe and significant international differences exist in the education of residents.We aimed to comprehensively map the state of urological training in an international comparison.A selective literature review was conducted using the following keywords: "urology, training, residents".Recent surveys have shown that urology training in Germany is subject to relatively few regulations on content, time and space when compared to other countries. A lack of a structured curriculum is considered as the main factor leading to dissatisfaction of the residents. Increasing work load, lack of surgical training and limited flexibility in family or research planning have been mentioned as barriers for successful training.Structured and validated competence assessments and not "minimum numbers of operations" may help improve surgical training. An objective nationwide examination at the end of residency may be useful for international benchmarking.

Nowadays, it is almost impossible not to link most of the sources of modern knowledge to information of 2.0 technologies. The aim of this review is to analyse the role of scientific social media (Sc-SoMe) and its potential applications in urology.A literature search was carried out using the PubMed database until July 2018. The research was performed with the following terms: "Social Media", "urology", "science", "research".Social media (SoMe) offers integrated services and easy tools for communication, collaboration and participation. Popular prototypical platforms of SoMe are Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. SoMe not only influence private life and personal communication, but these also affect business and science sectors. In this sense, the term Sc-SoMe describes the impact and usage of 2.0 technologies platforms on scientific work. There are different models of Sc-SoMe such as author identifiers which are unique identifiers that allow managing the professional identity of each researcher, distinguishing them from other researchers and unequivocally associating their work and author profiles. This helps us manage our own academic profile and control the information available about us and ensure that other researchers are finding correct and complete information about our research and career. Examples of Sc-SoMe are: ResearchGate, ORCID, Mendeley among others.Sc-SoMe should not only provide important information and services for literature and literature search. These could also be an important catalyst for promoting appropriate and helpful services in the context of a new concept of science, the science 2.0.