The Urology Specialist Medical Education Program (PDS) at the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya (FKUB) officially started in 2013. The establishment of the FKUB Urology PDS program dates back to 1997, when a letter of assignment was issued for the PPDS I Urology Program at Universitas Airlangga/Dr. Soetomo Hospital to Dr. Saiful Anwar General Hospital. This was followed by a request letter to the FK UNAIR Urology PDS Program, asking them to serve as a mentor and guide for the new institution (the FKUB Urology PDS Program) as a requirement for submitting a permit to the Directorate General of Higher Education (Dirjen Dikti) in 2010.
As a follow-up to the request letter for mentorship, on March 8, 2020, the FK UNAIR Urology PDS Program responded, stating their willingness to be a mentor for the FKUB Urology PDS Program. This was followed by a visitation by the mentor on June 22, 2010. On August 25, 2010, a visitation by the Indonesian Urology Collegium took place. On May 2, 2012, through a Rector’s Decree at Universitas Brawijaya regarding the establishment of the FKUB Urology PDS Program, a new chapter in the establishment of the FKUB Urology PDS Program began. After the Rector’s Decree, a letter from the Indonesian Medical Council (KKI) regarding the desk evaluation for the establishment of the FKUB Urology PDS Program was issued on November 1, 2012, followed by a feasibility assessment visitation by the KKI on November 14, 2012.
Then, on November 27, 2012, the KKI issued a recommendation letter to the Directorate General of Higher Education (Dirjen Dikti) for the establishment of the FKUB Urology PDS Program. After that, on January 3, 2013, another recommendation letter for the establishment of the FKUB Urology PDS Program was issued by the FK UNAIR Urology PDS Program. Starting in July 2013, the FKUB Urology PDS Program accepted its first cohort of students, and through a Dirjen Dikti decree dated October 28, 2013, granting permission for the FKUB Urology PDS Program, the program was officially and legally established.