Residency Program
The PGY2 year is the first full year in Urology. This involves a a three month rotation at OSU East and 9 month rotation at The Ohio state University Hospitals. During the first urology year, residents are expected to acquire an ability to perform a comprehensive urology 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 ambulatory settings. This will include placement of catheters, understanding and performing endoscopy, and learning basic urodynamic testing. The residents will also begin to understand the acute and chronic management of patients with urolithiasis. They will also understand the comprehensive approach to patients with genitourinary malignancies. Residents will be expected to begin to accurately log their procedures and to understand the basic of a presentation at Grand Rounds. The PGY3 year is the second full year in Urology and involves a 9 month rotation at The Ohio State University and a 3 month rotation at Children's Hospital. At The Ohio State University Hospitals the residents are assigned to spend time with attendings in the ambulatory care facilities as well as in the operating room. 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 out-patient facility and begin to provide teaching to the interns and PGY2 residents on the service. They also have a heavy responsibility for the evaluation and presentation of the in-patient consultations. It is the goal of these nine months to provide a greater degree of independence for residents and to have them begin formulation of appropriate management plans for urologic problems. The 3 month rotation at Children's Hospital is designed to introduce the residents to the evaluation and management of pediatric urologic and cogenital 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 all of their time with the attendings in the office or in the operating room. During the PGY4 year the residents spend all 12 months at The Ohio State University Hospitals. The residents are given increasing responsibilities, particularly in the operating room. They are also given increasing teaching responsibilities for the PGY2 and 3 level residents. The chief resident year is spent entirely at The Ohio State University Hospitals. Each chief resident has a four month responsibility as the administrative chief resident. There are heavy teaching responsibilities for the residents during this rotation. They are responsible for the call schedule and all of the conference schedules. They also have a one half day clinic per week where they evaluate indigent patients in our clinic facility. In consultation with Dr. Bahnson they will elect appropriate evaluation and management and surgical procedures for these patients as well as the correctional patients. They scrub in on cases of high complexity in the operating room. They also are heavily involved in teaching the more junior level residents, particularly in the acquisition of open surgical skills. |
The Department of Surgery offers one pre-urology year prior to the urology program. During this first year the residents spend their time rotating through different surgical disciplines with a heavy emphasis given to pre- and post-operative care of in-patients. Interns who are slated to enter Urology in their PGY2 year are given special rotations in pediatric surgery and transplant surgery since these disciplines are important to their development in future years in Urology. They also spend three months in Urology during which time a special effort is made to introduce them to endoscopic and radiologic evaluation of urologic patients. Their attendance at all of the weekly and monthly didactic conferences and lectures for the Department of Urology is required and documented by attendance sheets. The residents also spend a month on vascular surgery in order to develop skills related to isolation and surgical control of arteries and veins.