Residency Life at Nationwide Children's

Residency training at Children's can be fast-paced, high-tech, and challenging. And yet, we are proud that our program still stays focused on the resident as a whole person, with social and psychological needs. Below gives a small taste of "a day in the life at Nationwide Children's".

 

A Day in the Life of a Nationwide Children's Intern

7:02 am - Get sign out about your patients from the on-call intern in the Resident’s  Lounge.

7:37 am - Reviewing patient’s vitals and labs

8:21 am - At Morning Report – today’s case: a little boy with anemia/decreased urine output – Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome!

9:13 am - Talking with/checking-on the patients/families prior to rounds

9:41 am - On Family-Centered Rounds with the attending, residents, nurses, case managers and medical students on the Pulmonary Service

11:32 am - Finishing morning work- Calling consultants, ordering lab/x-rays, discharging patients, answering questions…etc.

12:07 pm - At the Acute Care Series lecture – today’s topic is DKA

1:39 pm - Doing a patient admission for status asthmaticus

2:37 pm -  Coffee Break!

3:14 pm - Discuss the patient’s physical findings/daily notes with the medical students

4:11 pm - Update the service attending on patients and admissions

4:48 pm - Check out with the on-call intern

5:03 pm - Head out for the day

Resident's Center

The Resident’s Center is the heart of activities, offering a modern, well-equipped place to socialize and build relationships with fellow residents. The center features dedicated classroom space alongside areas for rest and relaxation. The conference room is used for morning report, noon conference and weekly didactic lectures. Two floors of private sleeping rooms, with private or shared bathrooms, are available to residents who are on call.

The resident center has a kitchen, a large-screen television, computers with internet access and eleven pediatric on-call rooms.

Social life at Nationwide Children's

Joining the Nationwide Children's/Ohio State University residency program gives you entry into a ready built social network in Columbus, Ohio. The residency is large enough that you will easily find folks with common interests and abundant energy, but small enough that you will know everyone in your class.

 

Our residents take part in a wide variety of activities together including local and intramural softball, basketball, sand volleyball teams, a book club, weekly happy hour get togethers, a bible-study group, groups that run/train together, and a wide variety of gatherings and parties from large to small (Dog-park get-togethers, RockBand nights, holiday gatherings, cook-outs, OSU football parties and many others).  Visit our Facebook page and engage with us » There is a lot to do in Columbus. There are plenty of concerts/national touring shows, a variety of out door activities, theater, good shopping, great restaurants, sporting events, local festivals, great metro-parks and zoo, dance/night clubs and wine bars. There also are many interesting areas to hang out and visit in Columbus such as The Arena District, The Short North, Polaris and Easton. No matter what your interests are, there are activities and places for you to experience and a ready built social network to expand your possibilities!