Overview
Essential Urogynaecology (Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery) REGISTER
Two Days (9 Hours) Workshop
Online
Thursday 8th - Friday 9th May 2025
Delivered by Professor Sohier Elneil
Consultant in Urogynaecology and Uro-neurology
UCL Professor in Urogynaecology, Institute for Women’s Health, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, United Kingdom
Every year, an estimated 15 to 20 million women globally develop a reproductive morbidity. These conditions not only compromise the health and wellbeing of the women themselves but also have profound ripple effects on their children, families, and communities. Many women experience reduced dignity, an inability to care for dependents, lost productivity, diminished income, and difficulty in managing daily responsibilities-responsibilities that are often substantial and unrelenting.
Some of these morbidities are acute and life-altering, occurring suddenly during or after childbirth and may be treated relatively quickly if recognized. Others develop more gradually into chronic, debilitating conditions that impact a woman’s quality of life over time. Conditions such as pelvic organ prolapse (POP), urinary incontinence (UI), and chronic pelvic pain are examples. These and similar disorders are collectively known as Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (FPMRS), also referred to as Urogynaecology.
This suite of courses is designed to:
- Provide an up-to-date overview of FPMRS conditions in 2025, incorporating global perspectives.
- Equip healthcare professionals with the tools to investigate FPMRS conditions within both resource-rich and constrained settings.
- Offer a practical guide to the management of FPMRS conditions, incorporating evidence-based, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive practices.
- Present strategies for the prevention of FPMRS conditions, with a focus on community education and culturally aligned public health initiatives.
- Highlight the societal impact of FPMRS-including reduced productivity, healthcare burden, and long-term economic effects—particularly in settings where conditions like obstetric fistula and female genital mutilation (FGM) remain prevalent.
This course is intended for clinicians and affiliated healthcare professionals who wish to better understand the complexity of FPMRS conditions, their wide-reaching consequences, and the modern, holistic approaches needed to manage them. It promotes a multidisciplinary, collaborative model of care and emphasizes the importance of empathy, communication, and patient empowerment.
By integrating clinical skill development with public health awareness and gender equity, this course will help practitioners deliver the highest standard of care across the continuum-from prevention and early intervention to complex surgical management and long-term rehabilitation.
The core mission of this curriculum is to enhance and elevate the expertise of clinicians and allied professionals in this vital and evolving field of women’s health.
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Location
Queen Mary University of London, England EC1M 6BE, United Kingdom
FPMRS Conditions Included in the Course
is the first Professor of Urogynaecology at University College London and is a Consultant of Urogynaecology and Uro-neurology. She is based at University College Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. Her career spans several decades looking after women with complications following female genital mutilation (FGM), childbirth trauma, including fistula, and of ageing on the pelvic floor . The effects on women’s lives were destructive, and it galvanized her to undertake research into the medicine and science of pelvic floor disorders in women including incontinence, prolapse, chronic pelvic pain, and neurological dysfunction of the pelvic floor.
