• Research and Training Opportunities
• Resident Requirements
• Stipends and Benefits
• Application Process

Residency Programs

• PGY1

  Interns rotate in specific disciplines germane to their development in Urology. This includes five blocks of urology with special efforts to introduce them to endoscopic and radiologic evaluation of urologic patients. They also rotate on pediatric surgery and transplant surgery services since these disciples are important to their development in future years of Urology. They also rotate on our vascular surgery service in order to develop skills related to isolation and surgical control of arteries and veins. Their attendance at the weekly and monthly didactic conferences and lectures for the Department of Urology is required when they are on the urology rotations.

• PGY2

  The PGY-2 year involves four months on the Benign 1 service, two months on the Oncology 2 service, three months on the Oncology 1 service, two months on the Benign 2 service, and one month on the Outpatient procedure experience. During the PGY-2 year, residents are expected to acquire an ability to perform a comprehensive urologic history and physical examination and design appropriate radiographic and laboratory studies for diagnostic purposes. The residents will begin their acquisition of core skills utilized in the ambulatory settings. This will include placement of catheters, understanding and performing endoscopy, and learning urodynamic testing. In addition to learning the acute and chronic management of patients with urolithiasis, they will also learn the comprehensive approach to patients with genitourinary malignancies. The residents are expected to accurately log their procedures and to understand the basics of a Grand Rounds presentation.

• PGY3

  The PGY-3 year involves four months of urology pediatrics, two months on urology consults, one month on Oncology 2, one month of Oncology 1, two months on Benign 2, one month on Benign 1 and one month private urology service. It is during this time that they are given increasing responsibilities, particularly for more complex open urologic procedures in the operating room. They are also responsible for evaluating all of the correctional facility patients with urologic problems at the clinic and begin to provide teaching to the interns and PGY-2 residents on the service. Residents also have a heavy responsibility for the evaluation and presentation of the inpatient consultations. It is the goal of these eight months to provide a greater degree of independence for residents and to have them begin formulation of appropriate management of urologic problems. The four months spent at Nationwide Children’s Hospital is designed to teach the residents the appropriate evaluation and management of pediatric urologic and congenital genitourinary problems. The radiologic investigation of these patients as well as their surgical management is emphasized. Continuity of care is assured because the resident spends their entire time with the attendings in the office or in the operating room. They will also participate in surgical cases of increasing complexity with the attending staff. They are responsible for maintaining the weekly conferences at Nationwide Children’s Hospital with the nephrologist and radiologists for discussion of pediatric urologic problems. They are also to review the pediatric literature for the weekly conferences. They are responsible for presenting the Children’s morbidity and mortality at the monthly Departmental M&M conference.

• PGY4

  During the PGY-4 year, residents spend four months on Benign 2, two months on consults, two months on Oncology 1, one month on private urology, two months Oncology 2 and one month of elective time. During all the listed rotations, resident will be given increasing responsibilities, particularly in the operating room. They will also be given increasing teaching responsibilities for the PGY-2 and PGY-3 level residents. During the two months spent on the consult service, they have a major responsibility for the evaluation and presentation of the in-patient consultations at University Hospital, The James and in the Emergency Department.

• PGY5- Chief Resident Year

  The chief residents spend four months on Oncology 2, four months on Benign 1 and four months on Oncology 1. While on the Benign 1 service, the chief resident will also see prisoners along with Dr. Springer and a PGY-2 resident at the CMC. There are substantial teaching responsibilities for the chief residents during these rotations. As the administrative chief resident, they are responsible for the call schedule. In addition, they work with faculty to plan the grand rounds presentations, indications and morbidity and mortality conferences and visiting professorships. They also, along with a PGY-2, evaluate prisoners with urologic issues the 2nd Wednesday and 4th Friday of every month. In consultation with Dr. Springer, they plan appropriate evaluation, management and surgical procedures for these patients. As chief of the clinical service, they scrub on cases of highest complexity in the operating room and function as teaching residents for junior level residents to help in their acquisition of surgical skills. Individuals with a desire to pursue fellowship training will be encouraged to focus their clinical experience in those areas.

Practice Locations

• Brain and Spine Center

  300 W 10th Avenue

  The multidisciplinary GU Oncology clinics are located on the first floor of the Brain and Spine Center. At this location, medical oncologist, urologic oncologist and radiation oncologist are working side-by-side five days a week providing the highest level of care and treatment to patients affected with GU malignancies. Patients have the opportunity to be evaluated and counseled by experts in all disciplines of cancer treatment at one visit. The space has been designed with state of the art equipment and technologies for urologic procedures and designated areas for the delivery of outpatient systemic chemotherapy and a clinical trails office.

• Eye and Ear Institute

  915 Olentangy River Road

  Ohio State’s Eye and Ear Institute is home to a variety of healthcare services, including OSU Hand & Upper Extremity Center and the OSU Havener Eye Institute, Urology, ENT, Plastic Surgery, Dermatology, Cough and Kidney Stone Services. It is home to the OSU Comprehensive Kidney Stone program and the location where most benign urologic problems are seen.

• Franklin County Correctional Medical Center

  1990 Harmon Avenue

  Any inmate in the State of Ohio in need of specialized medical care will be see at The Franklin County Correctional Medical Center. We hold clinics there two times per month. Any inmate in need of urologic surgery is scheduled at either University Hospital or at The James Hospital.

• The James Cancer Hospital

  460 W. 10th Avenue

  Consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top hospitals in the nation for cancer care, The James is a transformational facility that fosters the collaboration and integration of cancer research and clinical cancer care. The James is the largest cancer hospital in the Midwest and the third largest in the nation.

• Nationwide Children's Hospital

  700 Children’s Drive

  The Children’s Hospital sees nearly 1 million patients annually. They are one of the country’s largest not-for-profit freestanding pediatric health care networks. They have been ranked again in the U.S. News & World Report’s “American’s Best Children’s Hospitals.” The Research Institute is ranked in the top 10 for National Institutes of Health funding among free-standing children’s hospitals.

• OSU Universtiy Hospital East

  181 Taylor Avenue

  Ohio State University Hospital is located in an east side neighborhood of Columbus, near downtown. The urban-based hospital provides all the benefits of an academic medical center within a friendly, community setting.

• OSU University Hospital

  410 W. 10th Avenue

  University Hospital is the flagship patient care facility of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. We are a 900-bed hospital that offers patients the latest in care, research and technology.