South Pointe Hospital is a 232-bed community teaching hospital serving the healthcare needs of Cleveland's southeast suburbs since 1957. As a member of the Cleveland Clinic Health System, South Pointe is positioned as a leader in caring for the health of our community. Located on Warrensville Center Road near Harvard, the hospital is just minutes from I-480 and the new I-271 Harvard interchange.

South Pointe offers a full continuum of medical and surgical services to the community including cancer care, cardiac care, coronary/intensive care, emergency medicine, rehabilitation and surgery.

South Pointe Graduate Medical Education

South Pointe Graduate Medical Education Department has a long history of commitment to Osteopathic Education. We are the third largest osteopathic teaching facility in the State of Ohio.

We offer a traditional internship along with linked/special emphasis programs to our seven residencies. The following is a list of our current residency and fellowship programs.

Residency Programs
* Anesthesia
* General Surgery
* Emergency Medicine
* Family Medicine
* Internal Medicine
* Internal Medicine/Emergency Medicine
* Orthopedic Surgery

Fellowship Programs
* Plastic - Reconstructive Surgery
* Sports Medicine
* Vascular Surgery

Orthopedic Surgery

4 Years
8 Positions

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:

The orthopedic surgery residency program consists of four years of well-rounded didactic and clinical opportunities following the one year linked internship.

The residents train at South Pointe, as well as affiliate hospitals. The resident gradually assumes increasing responsibility for patient care throughout the entire residency. During the third year of this program, the resident is granted outside rotations. Upon completion of the program, the resident will be able to evaluate and treat most orthopedic conditions.

Clinical training will cover general, as well as, subspecialty areas of orthopedics including:

* Foot/ankle
* Hand/upper extremity
* Pediatric orthopedics
* Orthopedic trauma
* Adult reconstruction
* Sports medicine
* Spine surgery

During training, the residents serve as team physicians for local area high school athletic programs. They participate in all aspects of care of the athlete:

* Pre-participation physicals
* Training
* Decision making regarding "return to play"
* Evaluation and treatment of injuries
* Rehabilitation

More information: Orthopedic Surgery

Emergency Medicine

3 Years
22 Positions at South Pointe (The remainder at other consortium sites)

The Emergency Residency Program at South Pointe Hospital is a 3-year comprehensive, structured curriculum based on the standards for Emergency Medicine as outlined in the Basic Documents for Postdoctoral Training as established by the ACOEP and approved by the COPT of the AOA. While the structured curriculum forms the framework for the didactic portion of the program, the clinical exposure is carefully selected to provide a broad based exposure of residents to medical and surgical emergencies of all ages to round out the residency training.

As the base hospital of the Northeast Ohio Osteopathic Emergency Medicine Residency, South Pointe Hospital has partnered with the following institutions to form a consortium:

* Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital (Cuyahoga Falls)
* Doctors Hospital of Stark County (Massillon)
* St. Joe's Hospital/Humility of Mary (Warren)

Clinical rotations are arranged to expose residents to critical care, surgical subspecialties, i.e. (orthopedics, ophthalmology, ENT), pediatrics, trauma, EMS, research, and administration. A minimum of 18 months of emergency medicine rotations are arranged to provide a progressive level of responsibility for the patient care. The seven core competencies are an integral part of both the didactic and clinical services. Residents are monitored daily, evaluated monthly by their preceptors and quarterly by the Program Director and the Director of Medical Education.

Residents participate in all clinical decision making and patient care activities.

Our program utilizes direct observation, monthly and annual in-service testing, simulation labs, procedural labs, OSCE's and mock oral board reviews to ensure mastering the seven core competencies.

Research is encouraged and nurtured throughout the 3 year residency.

More information: The Emergemcy Medicine Residence

This information is reposted with thanks to South Pointe Hospita.