Residency Programs
The PGY-1 schedule consists of 13 blocks. Each block is four weeks in duration. The ACGME requires PGY-1 Urology interns to rotate on 3 months of general surgery, 3 months of additional non-urological surgery, 3 months of urology and 3 months determined by the program director. Our general surgery blocks consist of:
- Acute Care Surgery
- Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Surgical Oncology
- Surgery Night Float
The 3 blocks of non-urological surgery consist of:
- Vascular
- Transplant
- SICU
In addition to the 7 blocks of surgery, our interns spend 4 blocks on Urology, 1 block on Urology/QI (where the intern develops a QI project in the ambulatory setting) and 1 block doing Urology procedures in the ambulatory setting.
The PGY-2 schedule consists of 12 months. Residents rotate on the following rotations:
- 1 month Ambulatory
- 1 month West Oncology
- 1 month James Oncology
- 1 month Research
- 2 months University Hospital
- 2 months Consults (University Hospital and The James)
- 2 months OSU East Hospital
- 2 months Pediatric Urology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
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.
The PGY-3 schedule consists of 12 months. Residents rotate on the following rotations.
- 1 month James Oncology
- 1 month West Oncology
- 1 month Consult
- 1 month Research
- 2 months University Hospital
- 2 months OSU East Hospital
- 4 months Pediatric Urology at Nationwide Children’s Hospital
It is during this year, residents are given increasing responsibilities, particularly in more complex open urologic procedures. They are also responsible for evaluating all of the correctional medical center patients with urologic problems and begin to provide teaching to interns and PGY-2 residents on service. It is the goal of these eight months to provide a greater degree of independence 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 appropriate evaluation and manage 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 time with the attendings in the office and 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 review the pediatric literature for the weekly conferences and are responsible for presenting the Children’s morbidity and mortality at the monthly Department M&M conference.
The PGY-4 schedule consists of 12 months. Residents rotate on the following rotations:
- 1 month Research
- 1 month Elective
- 2 months James Oncology
- 2 months University Hospital
- 2 months West Oncology
- 2 months OSU East Hospital
- 2 months Ambulatory
Residents will be given increasing responsibilities, particularly in the operating room. They will also be given increasing teaching responsibilities for the PGY-1, PGY-2 and PGY-3 level residents. They are responsible for reviewing the literature and choosing monthly Journal Club articles along with scheduling resident lead conferences the first half of the year.
The PGY-5 chief year schedule consists of 12 months. Chiefs rotate on the following rotations:
- 2 months University Hospital
- 2 months OSU East Hospital
- 4 months West Oncology
- 4 months James Oncology
Chiefs rotating on the University Hospital rotation and OSU East Hospital rotation also see patients along with Dr. Springer and a PGY-2 resident at the correctional medical center. There are substantial teaching responsibilities for the chief residents during these rotations. As the administrative chief resident, they are responsible for creating the call schedule. They are also responsible for the weekly schedule of assigning cases and clinics to PGY-1 through PGY-4 residents. In addition, they work with faculty to plan the grand rounds presentations, indications and monthly morbidity and mortality conferences and visiting professorships.
As chief, 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.