What MCh Urology residents and departments actually read in 2026 — with journals, a year-wise reading plan, and the references you will need for your thesis and exit practical.
Sitting the DrNB instead? The same superspecialty is covered at DrNB Urology (Genito-Urinary Surgery) books.
MCh Urology and DrNB Urology (Genito-Urinary Surgery) cover the same superspecialty and the same exit-exam scope, so residents on both routes read the same texts. These 40 titles are the reading list the National Board of Examinations publishes for Urology (Genito-Urinary Surgery), reproduced exactly — spelling and abbreviations included. Use it as your scope anchor, then buy the current edition of the titles you actually need from the next section.
Source: National Board of Examinations curriculum document for Urology (Genito-Urinary Surgery)
The books most residents actually buy. These are the editions in circulation now, with a note on whether each is something you read through, keep as a reference, or open only for the viva.
Three years of superspecialty training goes faster than it sounds, and most of it is spent on the floor. The order below is what works for most MCh Urology residents.
Smith & Tanagho for a fast complete pass, then begin Campbell-Walsh-Wein by section; Blandy for readability; start endourology fundamentals and the thesis protocol.
Systematic Campbell reading in blocks (oncology, stone disease, reconstruction, paediatric, functional, andrology, transplant) paired with Hinman's Atlas and Smith's Endourology; EAU/AUA guideline summaries; thesis data collection.
Second Campbell pass focused on controversies and recent advances, guideline updates, landmark trial review, and repeated mock clinicals, imaging spots and urodynamics interpretation.
Protocol, methodology and reporting standards examiners expect you to have followed.
Cases, spotters and stations that come up again and again in the exit exam.
The MCh Urology exit examination is university-conducted under NMC Postgraduate Medical Education Regulations, so paper titles are set locally by the affiliating university. Universities almost universally use four theory papers of 100 marks (commonly applied basic sciences, general and reconstructive urology, uro-oncology and endourology, and recent advances), followed by a two-day clinical/practical with long and short cases, ward rounds, imaging and instrument spots, operative video discussion, and viva including logbook and thesis.
The titles on this page are the ones residents and departments actually use, each with the edition in circulation now. Start with the first one listed and add the references as your reading deepens.
Campbell-Walsh-Wein Urology (4 vols) by Alan W. Partin, Craig A. Peters, Louis R. Kavoussi, Roger R. Dmochowski, Alan J. Wein is the usual anchor. The undisputed primary reference; every viva answer is expected to be traceable to it.
MCh Urology is a superspecialty course taken after a broad-specialty MD, MS or DNB, so the reading is narrower and deeper. The broad-specialty texts are assumed knowledge by the time you start.
No. Most residents own two or three and use the department or library copy for the rest. That is exactly why printing selected chapters from a PDF works out cheaper than buying volumes you will open twice.
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