Capabilities of ChatGPT-3.5 as a Urological Triage System.

Background And Objective: Patients struggle to classify symptoms, which hinders timely medical presentation. With 35-75% of patients seeking information online before consulting a health care professional, generative language-based artificial intelligence (AI), exemplified by ChatGPT-3.5 (GPT-3.

Gender-Specific Differences in Urethral Swabs: A Retrospective Single-Centre Analysis.

Introduction: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are on the rise globally, yet accurate data regarding infection rates remain scarce. There is the assumption that STIs among women with chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs) have been underestimated. This may arise from the reliance on specialised cultivation or nucleic acid amplification techniques for detection, which are more costly than standard urine culture and are typically only conducted by specialists like urologists.

[Sustainable residency training in urology in context of current changes in the German healthcare system].

Promoting sustainable structures and measures in residency is crucial to meet current and future requirements of the German healthcare system. This process does not only involve the integration of social, ecological, and economic aspects into everyday professional life but also into residency training. Specifically, sustainable structures and measures in residency include initiatives such as structured training curricula, simulation-based training, digital training opportunities, flexible working time models, and gender equality.

[Status quo of urological residency training in Germany-a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis].

Background: Urological residency training is a decisive step on the urological career path. The aim of this review is to develop strategies and approaches to actively shape, improve and further develop urological residency training.

Methods: With the help of a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis, the status quo of urological residency training in Germany is analyzed in a structured manner.

[Experiencing continuing education-experience of future urologists].

Structured residency programmes within dedicated associations of hospitals, practices and medical care centres offer the opportunity to improve the quality of training and to increase the attractiveness of urology through fixed rotations of doctors in continued training. The implementation of such programmes is guided by the framework conditions of the respective location. Possible rotations range from andrology to paediatric urology and uro-gynaecology to interdisciplinary uro-oncology.