Didactics
Grand Rounds
Weekly Grand Rounds sessions are held on Thursday mornings from 6:30-8:00 am. Presentations are given by faculty, fellows, residents and graduate students. There is protected time for residents to attend all Thursday morning lectures. Grand Rounds includes a monthly Journal Club, as well as a monthly collaborative series with GU Oncology, and M&M.
Journal Club
Each month, our PGY4 residents work with Dr. Ahmad Shabsigh to select relevant journal articles to be presented and read by faculty and residents in our department during Grand Rounds. Once per quarter, Journal Club is held at the home of a faculty member.
Hidden Curriculum
Residents participate in monthly workshops related to the development of their non-clinical skills. Sessions include topics such as leadership development, teaching skills, wellness, professional development, career planning, contract negotiation, and so on.
Simulation Curriculum
Residents participate in regular didactic- and hands-on workshops on relevant clinical topics. Didactic overviews are typically provided by our faculty, and representatives from relevant companies often provide ‘practice’ equipment in simulated dry labs, with instruction supplemented by faculty members in our department. Recent curricula have included PCNL/URS, vasectomy, Greenlight/Rezum, penile rehabilitation post-surgery, and FPMRS.
Robotic Curriculum
Lead by Geoffrey Box, MD our residents participate in a longitudinal, formal robotics curriculum designed to prepare them for excellence in the operating room. This curriculum includes computer-generated simulation, bed-side skills development, and a yearly animal lab in which residents perform robotic procedures of their choosing and practice damage control surgical scenarios.
Residents also participate in a weekly resident conference. This is a review of relevant topics from Campbell’s Urology and the AUA’s Core Curriculum designed to prepare residents to take their annual in-service exam. This conference is protected time and and includes lectures given by both faculty and residents.
Symposium
Chester C. Winter, MD Visiting Professorship: This symposium is an all-day event. The incoming chief residents are responsible for providing the Chair, Cheryl Lee, MD, a list of national known speakers they would like to invite. Dr. Lee will then contact their first choice. Residents are released from clinical duties to attend this event.
Babbert Symposium: This symposium is a half day event. Kamal Pohar, MD, Associate Professor of Urology contacts speakers and arranges the agenda. This symposium focuses on oncology topics. Residents are released from clinical duties to attend this event.
Pediatric Symposium: This symposium is an all-day event held at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Seth Alpert, MD arranges the speakers and case presentations. Residents are released from clinical duties to attend this event.
Global Outreach
International Global Health Experience: Medical Mission Trip to Honduras
Image: Dr. Michael Sourial (faculty member) and Dr. Tyler Sheetz (resident) on their 2023 medical mission trip in Honduras.
Dr. Michael Sourial participates in an annual medical mission trip to Hopital San Hermano Pedro in Catacamas, Honduras as part of a multi-institutional, week-long effort to provide urologic care in an underserved community with the focus being on benign urologic diseases, specifically benign prostatic hyperplasia and urolithiasis. This experience provides giving back to a community that is in need, working with limited resources (transportation, limited supply of equipment, using older equipment, etc.), and highlights some of the ethical considerations associated with global medicine. Beginning in the 2022-2023 academic year and continuing moving forward, Dr. Sourial now has approval to bring a resident or fellow with him annually to participate in this international experience.
Local Global Health Experience: Monthly Staffing of Physicians CareConnection Urology Clinic.
As part of a ‘local’ global health curriculum, residents participate in staffing a local community clinic serving underserved patient populations 1-2 times per year. Along with a faculty member, residents hone their cross-cultural communication skills and competency in this immersive clinic experience treating a diverse patient population here in Central Ohio.