Membership Categories

The following information on the categories of membership is an excerpt from the Society's Articles of Association.

Membership

The subscribers to the Memorandum of Association of the Society and such other persons as shall have agreed to be bound by that Memorandum and these Articles of Association and shall be admitted to membership in accordance with these Articles, and none others, shall be members of the Society and shall be entered in Register accordingly.

Membership of the Society shall be limited to persons who:

(a)        are or have been engaged in the practice of urology, or

(b)        take a special interest in urology

and there shall be the following classes of membership which are limited as follows:

FELLOW
To persons who are Full Members of the Society or any other approved urological society and who have in the opinion of the Board of Directors rendered distinguished service to the Society and the practice of urology.

FULL MEMBER
To surgeons resident in Australia or New Zealand and who practise exclusively or having retired and at the time of retirement having practised exclusively the specialty of urology and who hold the diploma of Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) in Urology or a degree or diploma whose training requirements are judged by the Board of Directors to be the equivalent of the FRACS (Urology), provided that except in cases judged by the Board of Directors to be special, an applicant for Full Membership must be a Trainee Member of at least three years standing or a Provisional Member of at least three years standing.

PROVISIONAL MEMBER
To surgeons resident in Australia or New Zealand and who, with a view to practising or continuing to practise the specialty of urology and who hold a diploma of Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Urology (FRACS (Urology)) and who have been a trainee member for fewer than three years or who hold a degree or diploma whose training requirements are, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, the equivalent of the FRACS (Urology), provided that except in cases judged by the Board of Directors to be special, no person shall be a provisional member for more than five years.

TRAINEE MEMBER
To registered medical practitioners resident in Australia or New Zealand and who are formally associated with the advanced training programme of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Urology leading to the diploma of Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Urology and have not been awarded that diploma.

CORRESPONDING MEMBER
To practising urologists who are full members of another recognized Urological Association in a country other than Australia or New Zealand and who have an interest in urology in Australasia.

ASSOCIATE UROLOGICAL MEMBER
To registered medical practitioners resident in Australia or New Zealand and who have some approved qualification or qualifications in urology that in the opinion of the Board of Directors is not equivalent to the diploma of  Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Urology and whose medical practice is at least two-thirds in the field of urology.

ASSOCIATE MEDICAL MEMBERS
To registered medical practitioners resident in Australia or New Zealand and 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.

ASSOCIATE SCIENTIFIC MEMBERS
To residents of Australia and New Zealand who are scientists who do not practise urology but who are actively interested in some phase or aspect of urology.

HONORARY MEMBER
To persons who, in the opinion of the Board of Directors, have made a distinguished contribution to urology or the Society

SENIOR MEMBER
A Member in the class of Full Member or Associate Urological Member or Associate Medical Member or Associate Scientific Member may be classified as "Senior Full Member", "Senior Associate Urological Member" , "Senior Associate Medical Member" or "Senior Associate Scientific Member" respectively upon successful application by the member to the Board of Directors after the member has fully retired from practice or has had thirty years membership in their respective class or in other cases as determined by the Board of Directors.

RESEARCH MEMBER
Trainee Members and Full Members, upon application to the Board of Directors, may be granted Research Member status for a period not exceeding three years while undertaking a university research higher degree in a field related to urology.  Each Society member is limited to three years in this membership category during their lifetime.

OVERSEAS MEMBER
A Member in the class of Full Member or Associate Urological Member may be classified as "Full Member Overseas" or Associate Urological Member Overseas" respectively if the member is temporarily resident in a single country other than Australia or New Zealand and if the absence is for a continuous period of more than six months.  Like other changes in membership class, an application to the Board of Directors is required.