Administration: Co-Director
Daniel Martin, M.D., FACEP
We try to accomplish several goals during the training of Emergency Medicine residents at Ohio State. In achieving these goals, three elements must be present:

1. There must be a desire by the resident to become the best Emergency Physician possible.

2. There must be a means to achieve this goal which includes the highest quality, state-of-the-art patient care and a broad clinical experience.

3. There must be limitless academic opportunity. Through our resident selection process, we look hard for highly motivated physicians who will become exceptional residents and Emergency Physicians. Our residents become part of an extensive teaching program dedicated to clinical excellence and academic strength. Our residents are supervised by faculty whose primary career goals are resident training, teaching, research, and making an academic contribution to Emergency Medicine.

Residents are exposed to ongoing clinical and laboratory research involving several aspects of Emergency Medicine. The training at Ohio State also exposes residents to the newly developed subspecialties of Emergency Medicine. In fact, there is opportunity for fellowship training in nearly all subspecialties within our department.

We train our residents not only to become competent and excellent Emergency Physicians, but to become leaders in emergency medicine in both the clinical and the academic arenas.

In summary, my overall goals as a residency director, academician, and clinician are to impact in a significant way the emergency care of the maximum number of patients possible, to save as many lives as possible, and to contribute significantly to the specialty of Emergency Medicine. By being instrumental in helping Emergency Medicine residents to fulfill their potential in becoming Emergency Medicine physicians, I feel that I am achieving these goals.