HF01-09: Meredith F. Campbell and Frank B. Bicknell: The Birth of Pediatric Urology in the United States
Friday, May 3, 2024 2:46 PM to 2:53 PM · 7 min. (US/Central)
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Abstract
History of Urology Forum
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Author Block
Anthony A Caldamone*, Providence, RI, David A Bloom, Ann Arbor, MI, Ronald Rabinowitz, Rochester, NY, H. Gil Rushton, Washington, DC, William J Cromie, Albany, NY, Sutchin R Patel, Madison, WI
Introduction
Pediatric urology is a subspecialty of urology that arose from a culture in which children with urologic conditions were cared for by general urologists and general pediatric surgeons. The purpose of this report is to identify key factors that led to the development of pediatric urology as a subspecialty in the United States.
Methods
The careers of Meredith F. Campbell and Frank B. Bicknell were researched to identify the rationale and their roles in developing pediatric urology as a separate discipline in the United States. In addition, the minutes of the meetings of the Pediatric Urology Advisory Council (PUAC) with the American Board of Urology (ABU) were reviewed.
Results
Campbell was Chair of Urology at the NYU School of Medicine and wrote prolifically about the field of pediatric urology. He authored one of the first textbooks in pediatric urology, almost completely self-written, published in 1937. Bicknell, a general urologist in Michigan on the faculty at Wayne State University School of Medicine, led the initiative to create the Society for Pediatric Urology (SPU) that first met at the 1951 AUA in Chicago and included eight attendees. Subsequently Dr. John Lattimer with the help of Bicknell’s brother-in-law, who was then President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), organized a well-attended meeting of urologists interested in pediatrics at the AAP meeting in New York City and led to the development of the AAP Section on Urology. Integral to the justification for the development of a subspecialty was evidence of a published corpus of content. This was initially fulfilled by the AAP Section on Urology Supplement of the Journal of Urology first published in 1986 and later with the Journal of Pediatric Urology in 2005. The SPU and the AAP Section on Urology came together to form the PUAC in 2000, which negotiated with the ABU to create a separate exam for certification of pediatric urology, first administered in 2008 to 176 applicants.
Conclusions
Pediatric urology became a distinct discipline after the SPU and AAP Section on Urology created a robust cohort of pediatric urologists that would eventually become recognized for subcertification by the ABU and the American Board of Medical Specialties. This set the bar for future sub specialization in urology.
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Author Block
Anthony A Caldamone*, Providence, RI, David A Bloom, Ann Arbor, MI, Ronald Rabinowitz, Rochester, NY, H. Gil Rushton, Washington, DC, William J Cromie, Albany, NY, Sutchin R Patel, Madison, WI
Introduction
Pediatric urology is a subspecialty of urology that arose from a culture in which children with urologic conditions were cared for by general urologists and general pediatric surgeons. The purpose of this report is to identify key factors that led to the development of pediatric urology as a subspecialty in the United States.
Methods
The careers of Meredith F. Campbell and Frank B. Bicknell were researched to identify the rationale and their roles in developing pediatric urology as a separate discipline in the United States. In addition, the minutes of the meetings of the Pediatric Urology Advisory Council (PUAC) with the American Board of Urology (ABU) were reviewed.
Results
Campbell was Chair of Urology at the NYU School of Medicine and wrote prolifically about the field of pediatric urology. He authored one of the first textbooks in pediatric urology, almost completely self-written, published in 1937. Bicknell, a general urologist in Michigan on the faculty at Wayne State University School of Medicine, led the initiative to create the Society for Pediatric Urology (SPU) that first met at the 1951 AUA in Chicago and included eight attendees. Subsequently Dr. John Lattimer with the help of Bicknell’s brother-in-law, who was then President of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), organized a well-attended meeting of urologists interested in pediatrics at the AAP meeting in New York City and led to the development of the AAP Section on Urology. Integral to the justification for the development of a subspecialty was evidence of a published corpus of content. This was initially fulfilled by the AAP Section on Urology Supplement of the Journal of Urology first published in 1986 and later with the Journal of Pediatric Urology in 2005. The SPU and the AAP Section on Urology came together to form the PUAC in 2000, which negotiated with the ABU to create a separate exam for certification of pediatric urology, first administered in 2008 to 176 applicants.
Conclusions
Pediatric urology became a distinct discipline after the SPU and AAP Section on Urology created a robust cohort of pediatric urologists that would eventually become recognized for subcertification by the ABU and the American Board of Medical Specialties. This set the bar for future sub specialization in urology.
Source Of Funding
None
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