About Program
The podiatric surgery residency training program is based at The Jewish
Hospital, located in Kenwood, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. The facility
belongs to the Jewish Hospital Health System, and is a member of the
Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati.
The Department of Podiatric Surgery prides itself on the pursuit of
excellence and on having maintained a tradition of collegial working
relations with the residents, podiatrists and other attending surgeons
since 1991. It is through the hard work of the administration, residents
and attending staff of the Department of Podiatric Surgery that this
podiatric surgical residency program has maintained its accreditation.
In November 1997, the Department of Surgery and the Podiatric Surgical
Residency program were relocated to this new state-of-the-art 200-bed
acute care facility. There have been over 14,500 surgical operations
performed in our 13 plus operating, cystoscopy, and endoscopy suites.
It is estimated that the Emergency Department at The Jewish Hospital
sees over 33,500 patients annually. Here, residents receive most of
their academic training while participating fully in the evaluation,
care and surgical management of a large volume of patients.
Throughout the three years of training the resident is exposed to
a vast array of experiences that include limb salvage procedures, rearfoot
and forefoot reconstructive surgeries and nuclear medicine and its
applications to podiatric medicine. Rotations are an important part
of the educational process and the residents spend time rotating through
a well-balanced curriculum. The current rotations offered are Internal
Medicine, Vascular Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Radiology, Anesthesia,
General Surgery, Pathology, Emergency Medicine, Dermatology as well
as Rheumatology. At the conclusion of each rotation the director of
that service completes an evaluation of the resident’s performance.
Likewise, the resident is provided the opportunity to evaluate the
experience. It is through this feedback that ongoing assessment of
the resident’s progress is identified.
Affiliation agreements are in place with other hospitals and surgery
centers. These facilities allow our residents several choices of the
types of surgical procedures in which they can participate on any given
day.
In order to provide exposure to a diverse podiatric population, residents participate in the very busy clinic that is conducted
two afternoons per week. During clinic, the resident is exposed to
a variety of pathology thereby preparing him/her for the types of patients
they will eventually see as practicing podiatrists.
Grand Rounds are held each day at noon with an assortment of topics
that are relevant, not only to internal medicine and general surgery
residents, but podiatric residents as well. Our residents present lectures
each year as a way to continue to educate other practitioners: medical
/ surgical residents and nurses as to the type of pathology we treat. It
is through ongoing communication such as lectures, consults and serving
on various committees that have allowed podiatry to become an integral
part of the healthcare team of The Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati.
