RESUMO
My stay in the Urology Unit of Necker's hospital in my last year of residency in 1960 was a decisive turning point in my career. My training as resident in the urologic department was planned for one half year, however it was extended to five half years of clinicat, after that professor Couvelaire invited me to participate to a competitive exam of professor in urology which held in December 1962. The medical school of Algiers, the only known active institution in Maghreb, planned an appointment of urologic surgeon. The urological department of Mustapha Hospital housed my activities after my success. If urinary lithiasis, prostate adenoma, bladder tumor and urethra stricture constituted the majority of my activity, many other diseases specific to the Maghreb should be mentioned such as fistula between bladder and vaginal arising after obstetrical maneuvers and hydatid cyst of the kidney. The idea of organizing a medical maghreb was born in Algiers. In 1964, Mrs Ben Allegue, Mr Moulay Ahmed Merioua, our lamented surgeon Bechir Mantouri and me took our pilgrim stick, went to Casablanca and Tunis to invite our colleagues of the Maghreb to organize medical meetings. The first medical days of Maghreb were held at Casablanca in May 1965. Nine years later, the first Medical Congress of Maghreb was born. I left Algiers and went to Tunis in 1972. At the mean time and since 1967, I had organized a teaching of urological diseases destined for the first generations of registered students in the medical school of Tunis. I had a new appointment, as head department of urology, in Charles Nicolle's hospital eight yesar after decisive of president Habib Bourguiba. The main reason of my travel to Tunis was the invitation of the late lamented Doctor Zouhair Essafi, one of the pioneers of Tunisian modern surgery. Several new techniques were introduced in Tunisia recently such as "I' urodynamique", interventional endoscopy and kidney transplantation. On June the 6th, 1986 the first kidney transplantation was performed, and during three years I performed 60 kidney transplantations. This event provided enthusiasm of young physicians and surgeons who were avid for novelty in the field of transplantation