413 About the author About the author Alexander Beulens was born in Goes on May 12th 1989. After his General secondary education at St. Willibrordcollege in Goes he studied Biology and Medical Laboratory Research at Avans University of applied sciences in Breda for one year. Thereafter, he completed the last year of secondary education at ROC Vlissingen so he could apply for the study medicine. Since he was not selected to study medicine immediately he started Health Sciences at Maastricht University in 2008. In 2013 he completed his bachelors in General Health Sciences. In 2011 he was allowed to start medical school at the Maastricht University. From 2014 until 2017, Alexander completed a majority of his rotations at Catharina hospital in Eindhoven. During this period he did multiple elective rotations in Urology at Amphia Hospital, Breda, and Catharina Hospital Eindhoven. Alongside his rotations he started his research activities with Dr. Scheepens in July 2015 at the department of Urology of the Catharina Hospital. After graduation in 2017 he developed and started the “PROTEST” project under supervision of prof. dr. Wagner at the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL) and Catharina Hospital. At the same time, he fulfilled his clinical activities as resident not in training (ANIOS) at the department of Urology of the Catharina Hospital. In 2018 he won the Dutch Society for Simulation in Health care (DSSH) International Research Grant. This grant enabled him to go on a academic trip with the Dutch Endo-urology foundation working group (SWEN) to the General Hospital in Toronto, Canada and St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Canada. On July 1st 2020 he started the Surgical part (Maxima Medisch Centrum, Veldhoven, programme director: dr. A.J.G. Maaskant) of formal postgraduate training in Urology (cluster South-East Netherlands, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, programme director: J.G.H. van Roermund). On March 1st 2022 Alexander resigned from his postgraduate training in Urology, since that date he has started working in the field of Elderly care medicine at Vitalis in Eindhoven. On march 1st 2023 he started his formal postgraduate training in Elderly care medicine at VOSON in Nijmegen and Vitalis in Eindhoven.
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