The First two months of YOU Council 26-28

Over the past two months, YOU has made focused progress in building a structured, national platform to support young urologists across career development, academic growth, and practice readiness.

Membership & Outreach: The forum expanded its footprint with the onboarding of 600+ active members and increased engagement across multiple states and zones, strengthening the unified national network. Social media outreach handles created and unified and one council member is responsible for one platform and we are growing in numbers rapidly.

Team Building: State and zonal volunteer/coordinators were identified, and core working groups across academics, research, and practice support were initiated to ensure decentralized and efficient functioning. We now have representatives from each state who can take our message forward and a working group of about 50 members to take on individual projects.

Research & Academics: One letter to the editor sent for Publication. Research questionnaires are under development and we have at present finalized two questionnaires, one around complications of RIRS and another around Prostate. We are also taking forward a study initiated by one of the previous council members on the demographics, lifestyle and burnout in young urologists. The Research Ideas Incubator program has been proposed enabling young urologists to present ideas, initiate collaborations, and begin shaping multicentric academic projects.

Practice Support: Work commenced on developing standardized consent templates and patient education vouchers aimed at improving clinical communication and safe practice. Videos and learning resources have been conceptualized. White papers have been shared on Freelancing Instrumentation for upper tract and lower tract each and the third one on Social Media Ethics. 100+ consents have been drafted along with 24 Brochures on common urological procedures which will be uploaded to the YOU section of the USI website once the section is active. Urology nursing course curriculum has been finalized and speakers have been assigned to each topic. As per the deadline of 2 weeks to send the final academic slides we are waiting for the final slide set to be ready so that we can begin recording the course and share it with members.

Career & Opportunities: Initial groundwork for a National Job & Fellowship Board was undertaken to ensure transparent and accessible career pathways; we are pursuing the project with the project lead.

Mentorship: A structured mentor–mentee framework was designed, with senior faculty onboarding in progress to guide early-career urologists. Challenge being faced is that many mentees are not full members of the USI yet hence the SOPs defined are yet to be implemented in the Pilot.

Annual Event Preparation: YOUCON the annual event of the Youth Organization of USI is being held at New Delhi from 22-23 August 2026. For this the hotels have been shortlisted and room rates frozen. Creatives for registration have been circulated by our team and nearly 150 registrations are expected to be closed by the time the report is presented to the council. Scientific program has already been shared with the council and speakers have been identified. They will be communicated about their assignments by utilizing the backend event features of the existing USI website.

Impact: The initial couple of months mark a transition from concept to team building. We have progressed to twice the number of active members with all social media handles and programs in place and progressing well.

What lies in the Future: In the coming month we hope to work as a more cohesive team with the following goals:

  • Submission of 5-10 manuscripts
  • FInalized Scientific Program
  • Release of the Nurse Training Program
  • Release of Whitepapers, Consents and Patient Education Material on the website
  • Creation of dynamic groups that are capable of taking multiple academic and awareness projects.
  • Increasing active membership to 1000+