The mass media were quick to pick up on two papers in JAMA Surgery last week with headlines such as "Patients have better outcomes with female surgeons", and "Should you pick the sex of your surgeon?". So what's it all about??We chat with lead author of one of these papers. Dr Chris Wallis, Urologist at the University of Toronto, whose looked at outcomes for more than 1.2 million (!!) patients undergoing a range of surgery types, and showed that patients operated on by female surgeons had less complications and better survival. Another study from Sweden showed similar benefits in patients undergoing gallbladder surgery. Chris tells us more. Plus Aoife McVey brings us some great social media highlights this week.  Even better on our YouTube channelArticle Links:Chris Wallis et al paper Swedish study on gallbladder surgery Guardian Newspaper article Twitter Links: Fun at the EUREP Meeting courtesy of Uros Milenkovoic Kim Kardashian in an MRI scanner Rhea Liang weighs in on ortho comments David Canes explains bladder diverticulum 3David Canes Youtube channel 

Is this the solution to screening for prostate cancer?? Don't bother with a PSA test and instead screen using a 10 minute MRI scan??! Re-IMAGINE is a very interesting prospective study published in BMJ Oncology this week which did exactly that with some really interesting findings. We are joined by study authors Professor Caroline Moore and Professor Shonit Punwani to discuss. Even better on our YouTube channelLinks:BMJ Oncology paper Coverage in Urology Times 

What is a rectal spacer and do they help reduce side-effects from prostate radiation??! That's today's topic on GU Cast. Renu caught up with rectal spacer enthusiasts Professor Peter Orio (Dana Farber Cancer Institute) and Associate Professor Shankar Siva (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre) in downtown Melbourne this week to learn all about this topic. Thanks to our friends at Icon Cancer Centre who supported Peter's educational tour to Australia this week. Also watch full video on YouTubeLinks:Randomised trial of Barrigel rectal spacer in JAMA Oncology 2023 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2801296

Here's a quick plug for another podcast that GU Cast is very happy to support!Launching in September 2023, the European Urology Podcast is a new monthly podcast to accompany the world's highest ranked urology journal, European Urology. Co-hosted by Professor Declan Murphy in Melbourne and Dr Joyce Baard in Amsterdam, the European Urology Podcast will highlight key papers and feature interviews with authors, editors and special guests. It will be produced by the team behind GU Cast. Learn more in this short trailer and subscribe on your favourite podcast platform to get the latest content. Just search European Urology Podcast.Also available as a full video podcast on the European Urology YouTube channel 

Major scientific journals only change their Editor-in-Chief every 8-10 years so it's quite a big deal when it happens! Today we chat with Professor Alberto Briganti, incoming Editor-in-Chief of European Urology,  the world's highest ranked urology journal, and with Professor Morgan Roupret, incoming Editor-in-Chief of European Urology Oncology. Why has everybody's impact factor dropped this year? What are their grand plans for their respective journals? How can we get our research noticed? Hear all the answers with Declan and Renu in this episode of GU Cast. Plus Aoife McVey returns to tell us what caught her eye on social media this week. Even better as a video podcast on our YouTube channel