While Allison Grant, M.D., was doing her clerkship at Montefiore, she found this spectrum of treatment approaches appealing. “But we’re also able to treat patients nonsurgically.” “Surgeons want to fix things, and I think most of us consider ourselves surgeons first,” she says. In her practice, Beth Drzewiecki, M.D., associate professor of urology at Einstein and a clinical urologist at Montefiore, spends about half her time in the operating room and the other half caring for clinic patients. Women make up just under 10% of practicing urologists nationwide, according to a 2019 report by the American Urological Association-but at Einstein and Montefiore, they represent more than 40% of urology department physicians. Something really special is happening at Einstein and Montefiore.” Ahead of the Curve “I learned in my interview season how rare that is.

“I was used to seeing so many women on the faculty who were urologists that I thought it was normal,” she says. Frechette entered a urology residency program at the University of Rochester Medical Center-one of two women from Einstein’s Class of 2020 who chose the specialty. After graduating from Einstein this past May, Dr.

“I ended up meeting so many empathetic female urologic surgeons here that it made it easy to envision myself as a urologist,” she says. She also found that female mentorship matters.

She discovered that urology is not at all limited to treating older men-instead, about 30% of all adult patients nationwide are women. Then, during her third year at Einstein, she started her surgery rotations at Montefiore. When she was a medical school student, Laena Frechette, M.D., thought she had a pretty good idea of what urologists looked like (male) and what sorts of ailments their patients had (prostate problems and urination difficulties).

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