Our Memberships

Member Classes

Fellow

Persons who:

1. are Full Members of USANZ; and
2. have, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, rendered distinguished service to USANZ and the practice or urology.

Full Member

Persons who:

1. are registered medical practitioners who practice exclusively the specialty of urology;are resident in Australia or New Zealand; and
2. hold the diploma of Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Urology (FRACS Urology).

Trainee Member

Persons who:

1. are registered medical practitioners;
2. resident in Australia or New Zealand; and
3. have been formally accepted into the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) specialty training program leading to the diploma of Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Urology FRACS (Urol), and have not yet been awarded that diploma.

Persons who fulfil the criteria for trainee membership automatically become Trainee Members as at the date they are formally accepted into the RACS specialty training program in Urology. 

Corresponding Member

Persons who:

1. are practising urologists;
2. are full members of another recognised Urological Association in a country other than Australia or New Zealand; and
3. have an interest in urology in Australasia.

Associate Urological Member

Persons who:

1. are registered medical practitioners;
2. resident in Australia or New Zealand;
3. do not fulfill the criteria for Full Membership but who, in the opinion of the Board of the Directors, have a recognised qualification or qualifications in urology; and
4. have a medical practice which is at least two-thirds in the field of urology or who, at the time they retired (regardless of whether they maintain registration as a medical practitioner), has a medical practice which was at least two-thirds in the field of urology.

Note: International Medical Graduates (IMGs) will typically be placed in the Associate Urological Member category.

Associate Member

Persons who:

1. residents in Australia or New Zealand;
2. who are, or who were at the time of their retirement:
   • scientists who do not practice urology but who are actively interested in some phase or aspect of urology; or
   • registered medical practitioners who are a member of an approved non-urological medical society in Australia or New Zealand and who have an interest in continuing education in urology.

Honorary Member

Persons who, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, have made a distinguished contribution to urology or USANZ.