What Does “Fellowship-Trained” Really Mean?
All physicians and surgeons complete several important steps over the course of their training. These include undergraduate college education, medical school, and a lengthy residency program, For many physicians, residency is the final stage of training before entering into general practice.
Others elect to complete an additional fellowship following residency, with the goal of sub-specializing and mastering a specific area of medicine. Fellowships generally include a strong mixture of clinical, surgical and research components. The concentrated and dynamic experiences gained during fellowship can take decades to achieve in private practice, if at all. “Fellowship-trained” simply means that a physician has shown the highest level of dedication to their chosen field and has achieved the highest level of training possible.
Recent survey data from the American Urological Association indicates that less than 40% of practicing urologists have any sort of fellowship training. Fellowship-trained urologists specializing in men’s sexual health and erectile dysfunction are even more rare, with fewer than 300 currently practicing in the United States (or roughly one for every 1.1 million citizens.)
Dr. McCraw is Nevada’s only urologic surgeon fellowship-trained in men’s sexual health and prosthesis surgery for erectile dysfunction. During his fellowship training, he completed more than 400 surgical procedures ranging from the ordinary to the very complex. He is uniquely qualified to diagnose and treat any urologic issue and his extensive knowledge enables him to minimize complications and patient downtime whenever possible.