Ohio State University IM

[cockblockandrun]

I absolutely loved the program and everything about it. Can anyone tell me more about it? Thanks.

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[DJ LACTULOSE]

what do u want to know? here's some basic info:

the ohio state university
internal medicine

residents
the residents at OSU are all pretty cool and go out almost every weekend. there is great comraderie and a good relationship between faculty and housestaff.

wards
OSU has a subspecialty wards setup (separate wards for gen med, renal, GI, cardio, onc). there is also a hospitalist service.

call
there is a night float in place. residents and interns only take overnight call on the weekends, but typically stay until 5 or 6 on weekdays unless they are on short call (stay until 8 pm i think).

continuity clinic
new for next year, every 3rd month will be an ambulatory month. this replaces the one day a week continuity clinic. so basically, you're part of a 3 resident "practice" and you'll see your patients and patients of 2 other residents when you're on ambulatory. i think this setup sounds awesome. imagine no weekends and no call every third month! also, there is a brand new clinic building where all the resident clinics will be held.

facilities
the main buildings of osu are all relatively new/currently being remodeled. patient rooms are either singles or doubles. osu has a new GI building for scopes and ERCPs. the ross heart hospital was built about 3 years ago and is basically a CCU with 3 cards teams and a CHF team. 2 more floors are currently being built onto the ross. one will be for EP.

computer system
all labs, discharge summaries, and orders are on computer. notes are currently on paper but will be switched to online this year or next. there is wireless internet for PDAs and laptops. PDAs can access labs for rounds. each team has a wireless RF phone to use for work during rounds. residents also have text pagers. vitals are in the paper charts on most floors but should also be switched to online in the near future.

conferences
interns have intern conference at 7 am for the first few months of the year to get oriented. the main teaching conferences are in a 4 hour block on tuesdays instead of one hour each day like most programs. lunch is served at these conferences. grand rounds is one hour on thursday mornings.

the city
columbus is the 15th largest city in the country and is a great place to live. you can buy a condo in close to nightlife for about 200-300k. there are a lot of new bars and clubs in the arena district (spice, sugar, bar louie, the patio, gaswerks, brother's, lodge bar, frog bear, etc.). there's also the new gateway area close to campus with plenty of bars and restaurants (mcfadden's, eddie george's, skye bar, ugly tuna, etc.). the short north arts district has art galleries, bars (bodega, surly girl, betty's, short north tavern, etc.), and a ton of restaurants. a lot of residents choose to live around here.

sports
there's also OSU football, bluejackets hockey, columbus destroyers arena football, and MLS soccer. residents can get season tickets for OSU football.

summary
OSU has a great internal medicine program and and columbus is a young and growing city. there are a lot of young professionals in the area and a lot of things to do.

 

[Linus2007]

I actually heard good things about this program during an away rotation from a big name program. They said that it was a program that was seriously underated. I also heard from Duke people that "there is a funnel from Ohio State to Duke for fellowships". Made sense as the chair stated that they take a lot of Duke faculty members. Overall it is great for subspecialties if you want fellowship options as you train under specialists. I got the sense that it was trench-like medicine (ie really busy during intern year like UTSW). During our tour the resident said "here is the call room but you won't see much of it". (Not a bad thing I actually like that kind of thing). The interns and residents looked very very happy. The dinner was hilarious and there really was a great sense of community within the program. The benefits are also pretty top notch. You are considered Ohio State faculty as an intern and resident so you enjoy the same benefits that they do. This means discount on football games, you can park anywhere on campus, and I believe you get a pretty good pension deal. If someone at the program can correct me, I believe it was 11% of your wages goes into pension with the school matching you dollar for dollar making your pension approx. $250,000 after completing residency (what one resident said). The program is not heavily research set but you do have an opportunity to pursue it, I want to say it's actually a requirement that you complete some research but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[Mary100]

Its great hearing such enthusiastic stories about OSU. I'm thinking about applying there next year. Do you know how IMG friendly they are?

thanks!

 

[grd7777]

Its great hearing such enthusiastic stories about OSU. I'm thinking about applying there next year. Do you know how IMG friendly they are?

thanks!

They usually take 1 or so a year, and will interview about 10, and they obviously choose interviewees with very high step scores. I was told this by one of my friends who is a resident there. The majority of residents are either from OSU med school or one of the surrounding midwest med schools (so Toledo, Wright State, Cincinnati, IU, Minnesota, etc). The majority are still from OSU itself.

 

[VCMM414]

I also heard from Duke people that "there is a funnel from Ohio State to Duke for fellowships". Made sense as the chair stated that they take a lot of Duke faculty members.

Okay, time to debunk this myth. Not sure where this sentiment comes from, but I've seen it posted on the forum more than a few times. Were they all posted by the same person?

Anyway, Duke's IM program does seem to like Ohio State COM grads. There are multiple residents from Ohio State in each of the current Internal Medicine classes. However, this relationship does not necessarily hold over to the fellowship level. For example, of all the current Duke cardiology fellows, not one is from Ohio State. Same with current pulmonary/critical care fellows, or ID fellows. Not sure about GI or oncology.

It's not as if Duke actively avoids Ohio State IM trainees for fellowship consideration, but there's no "special connection" either.

 

[joejabjab]

It's not as if Duke actively avoids Ohio State IM trainees for fellowship consideration, but there's no "special connection" either.

I don't remember specifics, but I also had the feeling that there was some strange Duke/OSU connection. I recall the chair of medicine going on and on about Duke this or that.

 

[DJ LACTULOSE]

OSU just sends a lot of med students to duke for IM residency. a lot of those residents evenutally come back to OSU to be attendings.