Evidence policy
How UroFellow verifies the directory.
Material claims remain tied to an official or attributable source and a checked date. Unknown information stays visibly unknown.
Source hierarchy
- Official programme or institution source. Primary evidence for programme identity, format and application route.
- Professional body or regulator. Evidence for structured listings, accreditation and registration.
- Official individual faculty profile. Required before an individual biography can be indexed.
- Reputable secondary evidence. Used only with a clearly scoped confidence label.
What is never inferred
A live page is not proof that applications are open. A country does not prove international eligibility. Hospital affiliation does not prove future supervision. Missing funding means “not publicly listed,” not “unfunded.”
SEO thresholds
Every faculty page needs a named person, a role copied from a cited page and a connected programme; the page says whether the source is an individual profile or a programme or society listing. City pages normally require two canonical programmes. Country-by-subspecialty pages require two verified canonical programmes; thinner views remain noindex and are excluded from the sitemap.
Editorial corrections
Submissions are unverified until manually reviewed. The current workflow opens the editorial inbox; it does not claim database storage or automatic publication.
Submit evidence for review →Scope rules
The directory lists 919 programmes at 649 host institutions in 54 countries: 793 clinical fellowships, 16 research fellowships and 110 observerships. Every entry trains in one of eight urology subspecialties: Urologic Oncology, Endourology & Stone, Robotic Urology, Reconstructive Urology, Pediatric Urology, Andrology & Men’s Health, Functional Urology, Transplant Urology.
General urology residencies, national specialist-training schemes, diplomas, master's degrees, short courses and hospital-wide programmes that are not specific to one urology subspecialty are outside the scope of the directory and are not listed.
What is recorded for each programme
Each record holds the programme title, host institution and city, subspecialty, format (clinical, research or observership), the official source and application URLs, a short factual summary, and optional applicant fields: duration, eligibility, documents, registration, language, visa, funding, positions, deadline and application route. Optional fields are left blank when the host does not publish them.
A full closing date is stored as a date only when the source gives one unambiguous day; 69 programmes currently have one. Interview dates, start dates, match-registration windows and recurring statements are kept as text and are never promoted to a deadline. These dates feed the 2027 deadline calendar.
How status labels are derived
Status is computed from the published wording and dates, not from whether the page is online. For example, a programme whose stored deadline has passed is shown as closed for the current cycle, a programme with a future opening date as an upcoming cycle, and a programme that only lists an accredited training site as recognised with intake unconfirmed.
Updating and corrections
Records are re-checked in batches, and each batch updates the verification date on the records it touches. Pages that changed are reflected in the sitemap dates. If you see an error, send the page URL and an official evidence URL through the correction form; corrections are reviewed manually before any record changes.