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The
Department is located on the main campus of Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State
University with
immediate access to resources at the University Medical
Center. The Ohio State University Medical Center is a tertiary care facility
composed of the University Hospital with 950 beds, the
Arthur G. James Cancer Center and Solove Research Institute with 160 beds, and
the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital with 160 beds.
The Ohio State University Medical Center serves as the major referral facility
for the central Ohio region and handles a high volume of varied and complex
cases. The College of Medicine at The Ohio State
University is also affiliated with the Nationwide Children's Hospital of Columbus, a
350-bed pediatric care facility.
The
Ohio State University is one of the largest single-campus
universities in the world. A wide array of informational resources are
available on campus including, but not limited to, the University Library, the
Prior Health Sciences Library, as well as a very sophisticated home net and
hospital computer network. Residents are able to access Medline for
literature searches at any time. The Wexner Medical Center has been ranked as one
of the most "wired" hospitals in the United States.
The
Department of Pathology is a state-of-the-art facility with over 35,000 square
feet of diagnostic laboratory space, 6,000 square feet of research space, and
1,600 square feet of resident office space. There are separate resident
rooms available in the Clinical Pathology, Surgical Pathology, and Autopsy
Pathology divisions. Each new resident is provided with an iPod phone or
iPod touch connected to the hospital and the department's information network, use of
a personal computer with direct internet access, and a microscope for daily use
during training. A departmental photography and computer imaging team is
available to help with the preparation of posters, PowerPoint presentations and
publication work.
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