Curriculum and Rotations for Emergency Medicine Residency

Residents spend the majority of their clinical emergency medicine time at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, with additional shifts in the Emergency Department at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center East Hospital, our affiliated community hospital. Nationwide Children's Hospital is near the Wexner Medical Center and serves as the primary training site for pediatric emergency medicine. Residents spend one block at Nationwide Children’s Hospital during their intern year, and pediatric shifts are longitudinally incorporated into the PGY-2 and PGY-3 EM blocks.

Additionally, during PGY-2 year, a community emergency medicine elective is offered at two local community emergency departments, Mount Carmel Health System  and Hocking Valley Community Hospital, as well as at the Columbus Veterans Association Urgent Care. A total of six blocks of critical care are spread across all three years of training, including a trauma surgical critical care rotation at Grant Medical Center, a Level I trauma center in downtown Columbus. To round out the residency experience, we offer the opportunity for a one-block exposure to community emergency medicine at Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, during PGY-3 year. Each year includes 13 blocks with three weeks of vacation each academic year.