Fifth-year (chief) residents assume complete responsibility for the outpatient clinic and inpatient medical care at University Hospitals, MetroHealth Medical Center and Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Each fifth-year resident serves as administrative Chief Resident. Chief Residents have direct supervisory responsibility over all junior members of the house staff as well as medical students.
Chief residents also perform most of the major surgical procedures. They have primary responsibility for teaching medical students at affiliated hospitals and for assisting in giving didactic lectures and conferences for medical students rotating through the Department. (All residents in the program are expected to assist in the teaching of medical students rotating through the Department.) Basic science and clinical research projects are completed, and scientific papers are submitted for presentation at local, regional and national meetings.