Teaching & Lectures
Dr Joe’s Participation in Building the Next Generation
Teaching & Lectures
Dr Joe’s Participation in Building the Next Generation
National Education Leader (BAUS)
Shaping urology training strategy and access
Training Programme Architect
Designed and restructured national courses & meetings
Scientific Meeting Reformer (BAUS)
Rebuilt BAUS conferences for depth and inclusion
National Urology Training Hub
Built Bristol Stone Unit as a teaching centre
How Dr. Joe Philip Teaches and Supports Healthcare Professionals
Dr. Joe Philip’s teaching spans surgeons, trainees, nurses, and allied health professionals. His work combines hands-on procedural training, national education leadership, and a strong commitment to inclusive workforce development. Through teaching and mentorship, he supports safe clinical decision-making, evidence-based practice, and long-term professional growth.
Over the years, his teaching has reached a wide audience across clinical and academic settings, impacting thousands of clinicians and patients through structured education, leadership roles, and trained multidisciplinary teams.
His Approach to Teaching and Learning
Dr. Joe Philip’s teaching is grounded in clarity, approachability, and real-world decision-making. His focus is on helping learners think critically, apply evidence with confidence, and progress safely in clinical practice, education, and leadership roles.
His teaching mission is to inspire the next generation of urologists, doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals.
He emphasises scientific critique, evidence-based practice, and practical application, while actively engaging learners through in-person teaching, virtual platforms such as MS Teams, and professional digital spaces. Inclusive education and widening access to training are central to his approach.
Training Programmes Designed by Dr. Joe Philip
Dr. Joe Philip has designed modular teaching programmes for urology trainees and specialist stone nurses. He delivers structured teaching across ureteroscopy, stone surgery, and non-operative and peri-operative skills, with long-standing involvement in simulation-based education to support safe skill development and clinical confidence.
Dr. Joe Philip’s teaching experience includes:
10+ National Training Courses Designed or restructured to improve learning and access.
More than 5,000 clinicians impacted through BAUS Annual Scientific Meetings over three years
Mentorship of 15+ surgeons in complex stone surgery and ureteric injury management
More than 7 years of hands-on simulation and procedural teaching
Lectures and Invited Speaking
International Conferences, Lectures, and Teaching Across the UK
Dr. Joe Philip is regularly invited to speak at international conferences and contribute to teaching programmes across the UK. His work focuses on clinical education, leadership, and culture change, with topics including stone disease, prevention of urinary sepsis, diagnostics in urological cancers, and equity, diversity, and inclusion.
He has delivered over 50 invited lectures at major international congresses and professional societies, and continues to support education through regional and national teaching across the United Kingdom.
Regular speaker at global organisations including BAUS, SIU, USANZ, USI, and AUA joint sessions
Long-standing contributor to South West urology education, including regional meetings and specialty courses
Delivered teaching across urology, radiology, microbiology, and gynaecology programmes
Regular invited speaker and chair at national section meetings, regional training days, and GP education forums
Dr. Joe Philip in National Education Leadership (BAUS)
As Vice-President for Education (2023–2025) at the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS), Dr. Joe Philip played a leading role in shaping urology education across the UK. He helped guide national education strategy and led the Educational Steering Group responsible for reviewing and developing urology training programmes.
During this period, he expanded the scope of education to include wellbeing, simulation training, wider regional access, and the development of non-operative and diagnostic skills.
He was involved in designing new BAUS skills and teaching courses, covering areas such as bladder outflow obstruction, robotic urology, trans-perineal prostate biopsy, and structured training for career progression.
Dr. Joe Philip also played a key role in redesigning the BAUS Annual Scientific Meeting. This included strengthening the scientific programme, reducing costs for delegates, and widening participation.
Over three years, these changes helped improve access to education and supported learning for approximately 5,000 attendees.
Building Strong Clinical Teams Through Education
Through education-led workforce development, Dr. Joe Philip has helped build stronger clinical teams by establishing advanced training pathways for stone specialist nurses and radiographers. This work has improved patient care, supported professional progression, and strengthened workforce capacity across multiple regions.
Established advanced training pathways for stone specialist nurses, now managing over 1,000 patients per year and practising as non-medical prescribers
Advised 12 NHS trusts on developing nurse-led stone services
Built radiographer education pathways in lithotripsy, enabling progression to Band 7 and improving recruitment and retention
Expanded lithotripsy radiographer teams from 3 to 10, and enabled collaborative teaching across the Midlands, South-West, and North-West regions
Mentorship and Advanced Surgical Training
Dr. Joe Philip has mentored more than 15 urology consultants and trainees in complex stone surgery and ureteric injury management.
He served as Fellowship Lead for a high-volume stone training centre at the Bristol Stone Unit until 2024, training national and international fellows from Saudi Arabia, South Asia, and China.
The unit is recognised as a centre for high-volume and complex stone surgery training, with Dr. Philip continuing to contribute as faculty on simulation boot camps and advanced stone workshops.
Faculty, Examiner, and Assessment Roles
Dr Philip serves as faculty for national and international simulation boot camps, ureteroscopy courses, and stone surgery workshops for nurses. He also holds examiner roles for the BAUS (SAS) FRCS Revision Course and the National Core Surgical Training Interview. Alongside undergraduate teaching roles in university-level urology education.
Podcasts Appearances
Dr Philip has participated in podcast conversations focused on leadership, equity, and cultural change in medicine. He has appeared on platforms such as
BAUS Talks
Topic: Conversations in Championing Change
European School of Urology Podcast
Topic: Inclusivity Challenge – Creating a Transformative Culture
These conversations explore leadership, equity, representation, and culture change in medicine, extending his educational impact beyond formal teaching environments
Impact of Dr Joe’s Knowledge
Through teaching, lectures, and public conversations, Dr Joe has influenced how clinicians learn, practise, and lead. His work supports safer patient care, stronger clinical teams, and more inclusive training environments. By sharing practical knowledge and encouraging critical thinking, his impact continues through the clinicians he has trained and the patients they care for.
5,000+
Clinicians Reached
Through BAUS Annual Scientific Meetings over three years.
1,000+
Patients yearly Impact
Through teams trained and supported by his programmes.
50+
Invited Lectures
Delivered at national and international conferences.
15+
Surgeons Mentored
In complex stone surgery and ureteric injury management.
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