Residency Program Descriptions

As the birthplace of family medicine, Ohio long has recognized the importance of strong family medicine residency programs that prepare excellent family physicians to meet the challenges and ever-changing needs of patients. If you are considering the fun, diverse and rewarding career of family medicine, consider our state’s many fine residency programs.

Ohio offers 22 allopathic family medicine residency programs with superior facilities and progressive clinical environments. While varied in format, each provides consistently, high quality training with dedicated faculty and resident staffs. Our residency programs are organized as affiliated networks around each of our medical schools and benefit by sharing diverse resources. There is wonderful collaboration and innovative faculty development within these networks. Ohio is fortunate to have strong departments of family medicine representing our specialty in each medical school. Ohio programs also benefit from OAFP, which plays an important role in supporting residency education and encourages resident involvement in OAFP business through board and committee participation.

We hope the program summaries below, provided by each respective residency program, stimulate your curiosity and prompt you to come and explore our many outstanding programs. For more information about each residency program, click on the program name to be directed to its Web site.

Another resource is the Directory of Family Medicine Residency Programs published by American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). This directory lists each program in the United States and covers many topics in detail—faculty, staff, administration, accreditation, size, salaries, etc., on all ACGME-accredited family medicine residencies in the United States.

1. Akron General Medical Center Family Medicine Residency
2. Aultman Family Medicine Residency Program
3. Summa Barberton Hospital Family Practice Residency Program
4. Bethesda Hospital Family Medicine Residency
5. Clinton Memorial Hospital/University of Cincinnati Family Practice Residency Program
6. Wright State University Family Medicine Residency
7. Fairview Hospital/ Cleveland Clinic Family Medicine Residency Program
8. Flower Hospital Family Medicine Residency
9. Grant Family Medicine Residency
10. St. Luke’s Hospital/ The University of Toledo Family Medicine Residency Program
11. St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Mercy Health Partners, Family Medicine Residency
12. MetroHealth Family Practice Residency
13. Mount Carmel Family Medicine Residency
14. Mad River Family Practice: OSU Rural Program
15. The Ohio State University Family Practice Residency
16. Riverside Family Medicine Residency
17. St. Elizabeth Family Medicine Residency – Youngstown
18. Summa Health System Akron City Hospital
19. Toledo Hospital Family Medicine Residency
20. Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Case Medical Center
21. The Christ Hospital/University of Cincinnati
22. Northside Hospital, Western Reserve Care Family Practice Residency Program

The Family Medicine Residency Program at Akron General Medical Center was established in 1970, one of the first in Ohio. Proud tradition and exciting vision combine to provide an educational center of excellence, known for compassionate, state-of-the-art care. A broad family medicine curriculum places additional emphasis on ambulatory care, procedures, pharmacology and patient education. The ever-changing business of medicine is stressed with a two-week block rotation in addition to an advanced longitudinal approach to practice management. Dynamic faculty members are committed to teaching medical students and residents to prepare for future practice. Akron General Medical Center has been named one of the nation’s most wired and most wireless hospitals and one of the best hospitals in U.S. News and World Report‘s 2009-10 publication of America’s Best Hospitals. Ours was the first residency center in Ohio to offer Web visits to our patients. The center has a well-established electronic health record that includes home access to all the office and recent hospital records. The family medicine residency center was honored as Akron General Medical Center Department of Year for 2009 and was fully remodeled in 2010.

Akron offers diverse cultural and recreational amenities, including Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area and E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Center. Strong community support for family medicine, combined with the arts and recreation, make Akron an attractive place to work and live.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide

Aultman’s Family Medicine Residency Program is designed to train the family physicians of the future through a rich, diverse and well-coordinated educational program.

Located in Canton, Ohio, Aultman Hospital is an 808-bed teaching hospital with 575 active physicians in 43 different medical specialties. Aultman has served Stark County and four surrounding counties since 1892 and is the largest hospital in the county.

Our training program is dually accredited by Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and American Osteopathic Association (AOA). We have university affiliation with both Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) and Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM). Our residency program has 21 residency positions with nine full-time faculty members. Our well-respected program offers a strong core curriculum, experienced and diverse faculty, and solid family medicine residents.

We believe the strength of your education in family medicine lies in your ambulatory care experiences. The new family medicine center for our residency program opened in September 2006. It is housed in the new Aultman Center for Education along with the clinical areas for the internal medicine and Ob/Gyn residencies, the Health Science Library and the Aultman College of Nursing and Health Sciences. For those who are interested in training for practice in a rural area, we offer an opportunity in a rural private practice.

We never lose sight of the necessity for our residents’ personal well-being, while striving to attain excellence in medical training. You will receive regular individualized feedback as well as the opportunity to give input during faculty advising sessions. There is a resident wellness conference series that addresses issues such as residents’ own physical, intellectual and emotional health.

As a resident at Aultman, you will experience an individualized curriculum created to meet your specific interests.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

The Bethesda Hospital Family Medicine Residency in Cincinnati was established in 1987. Bethesda is a large community hospital with a full range of primary care and sub-specialty physicians.

Our broad-based educational experiences are designed to produce physicians with excellent skills in the comprehensive care of individuals and the family.

The Family Practice Center, providing the integrating core of our educational experience, is in the local community of Norwood, 15 minutes from the hospital. Our patient population is diverse and very similar to that of a private community family practice.

We strive to maintain a relaxed, yet rigorous, learning environment. Our core six, full-time family medicine faculty members bring diverse backgrounds and experiences to the program, supplemented by a large number of part-time family physician and sub-specialist teaching faculty.

Third- and fourth-year medical students are invited to spend an elective month with the program.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

This program is the primary affiliate of Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and is based at University Hospitals Case Medical Center (UHCMC). The Family Medicine Department at CWRU is proud of being currently ranked 12th nationally by U.S. News and World Report and 15th nationally in term of National Institute of Health funding. We are the editorial home of Annals of Family Medicine, the highest impact journal of our discipline. UHCMC is dedicated to the vision of being a regional leader in providing high quality, compassionate and cost-effective health care, including the full spectrum of prevention, diagnosis and treatment while enhancing its status as a nationally recognized academic health center. Training occurs at both UHCMC and its affiliated community inpatient and outpatient facilities in University Hospital Health System, affording resident physicians exposure to cutting edge technology and faculty in a tertiary academic setting with complementary community-based training.

During their residency training, residents may focus on global health, OB and women’s health, public health/preventive medicine, and care of medically vulnerable populations. Faculty members have added training/qualifications/interest in sports medicine, osteopathic manipulation, psychiatry, OB/women’s health, genetics, sleep medicine, addiction medicine, public health/preventive medicine, research, hospital medicine, adolescent medicine, HIV medicine, geriatrics, and hospice and palliative medicine. Available fellowship opportunities within the department include OB, women’s health, academic medicine and public health/preventive medicine and within University Hospitals Health System include sports medicine, geriatrics and urgent care.

Our first-year class enrolls eight residents per year. Our graduates establish successful careers in academic, urban and suburban family practices.

Interested candidates should apply through ERAS.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Christ Hospital/University of Cincinnati Family Medicine Residency is nationally known for longitudinal training in global/underserved health care and committed to caring for underserved populations abroad and in the United States. Our community hospital program has been successfully training family physicians for over 35 years! We believe that all family physicians need to be prepared to practice in any environment and care of individuals of any ethnic or socioeconomic background. We are based in a 550-bed community hospital, The Christ Hospital. The Christ Hospital is the winner of Cincinnati’s Consumer Choice Award—an award it has received for 13 consecutive years. Family medicine faculty, including geriatricians, teach a full range of inpatient adult medicine at The Christ Hospital. During the obstetrics experience at The Christ Hospital, residents work closely with family physicians, obstetricians, maternal/fetal medicine specialists, a nurse midwife, pediatricians and neonatologists. We utilize the tertiary care settings of The Christ Hospital (which has been ranked among the “top hospitals” by U.S. News and World Report) for training in emergency care, intensive care, newborn care and subspecialty clinics. Pediatrics is undertaken at one of the nation’s most renowned hospitals, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, which is ranked third in the nation for pediatrics. Multiple community electives such as alternative medicine, sports medicine and geriatrics are available. Patients in our outpatient center are from all socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds. Many residents and faculty work with underserved populations in the community. Residents are encouraged to tailor their training as they anticipate their future practice settings and career goals.

Our program is well-known nationally for its Global Health Program. This longitudinal curriculum provides training in working with the underserved in the United States and abroad. Residents participate in monthly didactics and funded-yearly trips to Honduras. Third-year residents may design an international elective to a site of their choosing. We offer a five-year combined family medicine/psychiatry program; these residents are eligible upon graduation for board certification in both specialties. Our Geriatrics Fellowship focuses clinical and research training on the special needs of our growing elderly population.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package which includes a mileage reimbursement for travel. Among our many highly skilled, experienced faculty, we have the 2006 American Academy of Family Physicians Exemplary Teaching Award winner Phil Diller, M.D., our department chair.

Call or arrange a visit to learn more about our program.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Clinton Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program combines the resources of a major teaching facility with the appealing environment of a small-town hospital. The program, which is affiliated with University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, is committed to training superior residents who want to make a difference in a smaller community.

Clinton Memorial Hospital is a regional teaching hospital with electronic medical records; a regional cancer center; a spacious and modern outpatient family health center that houses the residency program and a recently renovated and expanded hospital. Its unopposed residency program assures a great deal of experience and responsibility for our family medicine residents. Being a part of a smaller health system allows us to get to know our residents quickly and intimately.

Clinton County, Ohio, serves as a model community for learning family medicine in a small town. In his book, The 100 Best Small Towns in America: A Nationwide Guide to the Best in Small Town Living, Norman Crampaton listed Wilmington as the best small town in Ohio. In 1995, Cincinnati Magazine rated Wilmington as the most livable neighborhood in the greater Cincinnati area.

Many say that Wilmington is the kind of town they would like their children to grow up in. You are more than welcome to find out why.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Fairview Hospital/Cleveland Clinic Family Medicine Residency Program combines the best features of training at a community hospital and a major academic medical center. Residents are based at Fairview Hospital, a 469-bed community hospital offering the latest in comprehensive, high quality medical care in a friendly, personal environment. Our community hospital is a regional center for heart, cancer and maternity care.

In addition to their clinical rotations at Fairview, residents also enjoy many of the educational resources offered by Cleveland Clinic including selected rotations, the availability of sports medicine fellows and family physicians as preceptors in the family practice center.

Residents see their own continuity patients at the family practice center, located across the street from Fairview Hospital. Our practice sees more than 20,000 patients per year, and offers residents ample clinical and practice management experience. Our office uses EPIC EMR with the MyChart patient portal. This EMR is integrated with the entire Cleveland Clinic system and offers access to records from hundreds of other doctor’s offices and nine hospitals.

We are dedicated to preparing family physicians for lives of service to their patients and their profession. We have a special emphasis on health promotion and chronic disease care. Our faculty includes six full-time physicians, a behavioral scientist, a patient educator and a family nurse practitioner. We also have consultants in OB/GYN and research. With years of practice and teaching experience, our faculty encourages collaborative learning and the acquisition of skills for lifelong learning. We value teamwork, respect, service excellence and a healthy balance in our professional and personal lives.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Flower Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, founded in 1969, was the first family medicine residency in Ohio. Our ACGME-accredited, community-based program is affiliated with University of Toledo College of Medicine. We have positions for six residents in each of the three years and have graduated more than 100 residents.

Flower Hospital (FH), a member of ProMedica Health System, is a 292-bed facility located in Sylvania, Ohio. FH’s 1,500 employees are dedicated to a full spectrum of health care, providing comfort and care to generations of patients and their families.

FH’s campus includes the hospital’s Level III Trauma Center; inpatient psychiatric services, labor and delivery, and outpatient surgical services as well as the region’s leading oncology services at the Hickman Cancer Center; and several senior and assisted-living facilities offered through ProMedica Continuing Care Services.

The Flower Hospital Family Medicine Residency office is comprised of six stations where three residents and a faculty member work as a team. A sense of large group practice is created by third-year outpatient call for the program. The faculty is made up of full-time, board-certified family physicians, practice administrator, coordinator of medical education, clinical psychologist, nurse practitioner, clinical pharmacist and patient educator.

We provide training for third- and fourth-year medical students from University of Toledo College of Medicine and welcome clerks in two- or four-week rotations in family medicine and emergency medicine from all medical schools.

In addition, we offer two summer fellowships, one clinical-based and one research-based, for first-year medical students who have an interest in family medicine. A stipend is provided.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Grant Family Medicine Residency Program is a clinically focused program that has a reputation of preparing outstanding family physicians able to practice in a wide variety of settings, including rural, urban or international. More than 400 graduates are practicing all over the United States and internationally.

The residency is unique in that it is an unopposed program in a relatively large metropolitan full-service hospital. In this setting, residents are given progressive responsibility and autonomy commensurate with their abilities. The strong inpatient experience is enhanced by a large number of specialist teaching faculty who are actively involved in the residency.

Additionally, the residency offers an outstanding outpatient experience, with team-based care, individualized nursing backup, diverse populations and two suburban family medicine centers supported by electronic medical records.

Opportunities exist for further training through sports medicine, geriatric and hospital medicine fellowships.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Although continuing to take medical students for rotations, The Ohio State University Rural Program will not be taking new residents after July 2011.

The Ohio State University Rural Program combines the best of two worlds: the excellence of academic family medicine and the real-world relevance of rural family practice. Anchored in Logan County for all three years, this “practice with a residency” in the rural community and hospital is punctuated by intermittent immersion experiences in the tertiary hospital context.

Two residents per year are accepted into this integrated “2-2-2″ rural training track affiliated with The Ohio State University. In comparison with training in the city, the educational setting offered in Logan County more closely resembles that which a physician would expect to experience in subsequent rural practice.

Unique aspects of the program include a high-volume continuity OB practice; experienced rural faculty, following a mentoring model of postgraduate education adapted to individual learning needs; and a high volume of procedures integrated into a real-life practice. In a weekly trans-disciplinary small group experience, called “Clinical Jazz,” attention is focused on the doctor-patient relationship and its central importance in clinical practice.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

The family medicine residency program at MetroHealth is characterized by diversity, excitement and challenge. The mission of the family medicine department is to provide excellence in education as well as high quality, community-oriented, family-centered healthcare to all people. The department’s hospital and community faculty are not only skilled clinicians, but also serve as mentors and offer a stimulating and unique mix of interests. Our faculty represents leaders in geriatrics, obstetrics, family systems medicine, community-based medicine and patient education. A multidisciplinary team approach to patient care is at the heart of our philosophy of residency training. The family medicine department strives to create an atmosphere where learning takes place in a supportive and collegial environment. Our residents leave with the confidence and understanding that they have the ability to manage a wide array of health concerns and conditions and a deep appreciation of the family and community systems that shape their patients’ lives.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

The field of family medicine has always been fostered and strongly supported in central Ohio by the Mount Carmel Health System. As a leader in the field of primary care and tertiary medical care, Mount Carmel has provided a strong and academically based family medicine residency program since 1975. This program has produced a diverse group of family physicians, who are leaders in the medical field throughout Ohio and the United States. These graduates practice in many diverse settings, including private physician offices, emergency rooms, urgent care centers, hospital-based offices and federally qualified health facilities located in urban, rural and suburban environments. Over 75 percent of our graduates remain on staff with the Mount Carmel Health System after graduation from our program.

The Mount Carmel Family Medicine Residency Program is a comprehensive three-year, fully accredited program designed to educate family physicians to provide a broad range of primary care services for patients from infancy through geriatrics. Our residents have extensive training opportunities at several central Ohio hospitals, including Mount Carmel West, Mount Carmel St. Ann’s and Columbus Children’s Hospital. Our residents also receive comprehensive ambulatory-based training in our state-of-the-art outpatient facilities. Our family medicine residency focuses on educating family physicians in the full spectrum of patient care. Our residents receive expert instruction in major medical procedures, a steady diet of workshops, lectures, rounds and opportunities to do research and explore special interests in a comprehensive program that prepares them well for family medicine. This diverse and challenging experience gives our residents the opportunity to perfect their clinical skills, learn and enhance their ambulatory procedure skills, and develop a strong business foundation to ensure success in the field of family medicine.

In addition to a comprehensive curriculum, the residency features an expert and friendly faculty, dozens of unique training opportunities, commitment to community service, exposure to emerging technologies, attractive benefits package, abundant resident input and family-like atmosphere unlike other programs of its kind.

At Mount Carmel, we also emphasize community service by giving our residents opportunities to help underserved patients in the Columbus area while further developing their patient care and interaction skills. An exceptional family medicine education and advanced medical training is not all our residents get from their Mount Carmel residency. They also learn the ins and outs of how to manage their future practice and are exposed to information technologies that simplify the business of modern medicine.

In our program, residents learn from and work with a knowledgeable, friendly and approachable faculty. Whether discussing a clinical dilemma, obtaining advice on career planning or just sharing a friendly chat, our faculty shows its support for resident education and development in innumerable ways.

All other considerations aside, the family-like atmosphere at Mount Carmel is what sets our family medicine program apart. Each person’s views are heard and considered in the decision making that shapes the program and as a result, provides our residents with an ownership share and a sense of pride in its ongoing success.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Western Reserve Care Family Practice Residency Program was founded in 1979. There are four residents each year. We serve a population of about 250,000, yet do not have the congestion of a large city. As a major teaching hospital for Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM), we enjoy the resources of a medical school with a class size of 100 students. Our program fosters resident independence coupled with a strong program of practice management skills. A number of our graduates have successfully started private practices, quickly enjoying success.

Western Reserve Care System (WRCS) has been involved in post-graduate training since the turn of the century and there is still a strong commitment to medical education after 90 years. This is evidenced by the hospital maintaining residencies for family medicine, internal medicine, surgery, podiatry, pathology and dentistry. Training associations also exist with numerous other paramedical training programs. There are five other family medicine residency programs associated with NEOUCOM. The directors meet together monthly and work jointly on projects. These features lead to a nicely balanced offering of broad academic resources in a personal and supportive environment.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

At The Ohio State University (OSU) Family Medicine Residency, we strive to create a nurturing learning environment that allows residents to grow both personally and professionally. You will enjoy the dedicated teaching of family physicians in the office and on an “unopposed” inpatient service at a large inner city community hospital while being exposed to cutting edge medicine on specialty rotations at a major academic medical center. You will be part of an ever-changing, growing family – a unique family medicine residency offering you a variety of choices to meet your future practice plans. Take a look and see why you should choose OSU.

Our university-based family medicine program emphasizes traditional family medicine through specialty rotations at OSU Medical Center, a nationally ranked, academic medical center (rated best in central Ohio). Our inpatient service at University Hospitals East allows family medicine residents to develop their clinical and technical skills in a supportive environment that fosters personal and professional development. Residents follow their continuity patients at the OSU Rardin Family Practice Center (FPC), a nationally recognized patient-centered medical home (PCMH), where faculty and community family physicians mentor and teach them in the office setting. This practice serves a diverse patient population, providing over 36,000 visits annually.

Our urban family medicine program, housed at OSU Family Medicine at University Hospitals East, is located in an “empowerment zone.” Family medicine residents in the urban track experience a curriculum designed to prepare them for life as an urban family physician.

Our academic track prepares family medicine residents for a career in academic family medicine with a focus on teaching, leadership and scholarship/research. This track is designed to lead to a post graduate M.P.H. or M.B.A. degree.

Our faculty is internationally recognized for their excellence in teaching, scholarship and patient care. Of the 28 family physicians in central Ohio named to the 2010 “America’s Best Doctors” (limited to 5 percent of the nation’s physicians), 11 are associated with our program. Other unique attributes about our program are our longitudinal rotations in any specific area of interest, international rotations to underserved areas around the world, and fellowships in sports medicine and integrative medicine. Rotating through OSU Medical Center provides residents with the opportunity to work with nationally recognized faculty members and within a hospital that makes the national honor roll every year. Graduating residents are recognized as being exceptionally prepared for any style of practice and carry the name of OSU proudly.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Riverside Family Medicine Residency is located at Riverside Methodist Hospital in northwest Columbus. The program provides the practical experiences of a large community hospital while offering the educational opportunities of an academic center. Residents benefit from a family medicine inpatient experience that features a wide variety of adult patient problems, obstetric care, critical care, management of newborns and complicated referrals from surrounding communities. Pediatric training is done in the Riverside hospital nursery, in the family practice center and at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Our family practice center has nearly 20,000 patient visits per year for acute care, chronic care and procedures like colposcopy, minor dermatology procedures, stress testing, ultrasound, casting, splinting and vasectomy. The residency faculty is well-known nationally and respected locally. They have certificates in geriatrics, sports medicine, adolescent medicine, and hospice & palliative care.

Riverside Family Practice has an established tradition of excellence. Scholarship, research and teaching are stressed at every level. Innovation in learning is accomplished through the Center for Medical Education and Innovation, a simulation center designed for resident and attending education. Community service and international missions are offered to the residents in our program. The work environment is outstanding and the relationship with the other Riverside residencies is exceptional. Most important, however, is the flexibility built into the program that allows residents to develop individual interests to the fullest – whether it be research, teaching, sports medicine, geriatrics, procedural skills or another area. Upon graduation from Riverside Family Medicine Residency you will have confidence in your ability to practice in the ever-changing world of medicine and the specialty of family medicine.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

St. Elizabeth Health Center is located halfway between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. As a 400-bed, university-affiliated hospital, we serve approximately 1 million people and function as a regional referral center for outlying rural and suburban communities.

Our Family Health Center is conveniently located across the street from the hospital and houses the family medicine residency and geriatric assessment center. The center is fully equipped for video sigmoidoscopy, minor surgery, spirometry, Holter monitoring, colposcopy, office laboratory and numerous computer applications. Residents follow a diverse patient population within the family health center where patient education and health maintenance are emphasized.

The program consists of 12 residents, five family medicine faculty and one behavioral science faculty member. Our faculty offers expertise in all areas of family medicine, including practice management and women’s health. A core curriculum is covered in weekly didactic lectures with attention to common ambulatory problems and treatment. In addition to the required rotations, our residency offers the flexibility to accommodate individual interests. Workloads are reasonable to assure time for family activities and recreation.

We welcome general inquiries and individuals seeking senior level rotations.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

St. Luke’s Hospital/University of Toledo Family Medicine Residency Program is a community-based, university affiliated residency program. The residency is made up of 12 residents and a diverse faculty composed of faculty members from University of Toledo Department of Family Medicine.

• Multiple training sites: Residents have opportunities for training at urban and rural community hospitals, as well as a university medical center. This provides a broader range of experiences and opportunities.
• New, well-equipped family medicine center: Incoming residents are assigned a panel of patients/families that they serve as their continuity physicians during their three years of training. Residents learn common family medicine procedures, including colposcopy, excision of skin lesions and endometrial biopsy.
• Faculty that is talented and diverse: Faculty actively participates in teaching, but also allows appropriate independence and opportunities for growth.
• Longitudinal curricula: Exceptionally strong behavioral science and practice management curricula are taught longitudinally. Residents also participate in a computerized medical informatics curriculum.
• Research opportunities: Clinical research opportunities are available to interested residents. All residents are involved in some form of scholarly activity.
• Access to many activities found in major metropolitan areas without the hassles of big city life. The Toledo area has a population of half a million people and offers a diverse range of activities including:
  • The world-class Toledo Museum of Art (ranked in the Top 10 in the United States)
  • Mud Hens baseball, a AAA farm team for the Detroit Tigers
  • Toledo Walleye hockey
  • An excellent metro park system
  • The Toledo Zoo, recognized as one of the Top 10 zoos of its size in the country
  • Three local universities and colleges, including the University of Toledo and Bowling Green State University
  • Local theatre groups, The Toledo Symphony Orchestra and The Toledo Opera Association
  • Access to more than 20 golf courses and a venue for the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA)
  • An hour away from Cedar Point, ranked #1 in the world for roller coasters

Contact us to arrange a visit, clinical clerkship, acting internship or to explore research opportunities. We would like to hear from you. We would welcome the opportunity to tell you more about our program and the opportunities we can provide for you.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

At Mercy, we believe in creating family physicians who take care of people and not just diseases, who take the time to know their patients and their families and are not caught in the mindset of the assembly line, and above all, who wish to be healers and not just physicians who can write a script or order yet another expensive test. The future will demand from us high-tech, high-touch and high quality, cost-effective care and family medicine truly will be the only specialty able to meet the needs of our patients in all healthcare settings.

Our Core Values
Integrity & Honesty
Being truthful, reliable and of strong moral character no matter what the situation or circumstances.

Dignity & Compassion
Caring for those around us by treating them with respect, mercy and empathy.

Service
Recognizing and meeting the needs of our patients, learners and co-workers.

Excellence
Continually striving to reach our highest level of education and performance and motivating those around us to do the same.

Unity & Teamwork
Working as a cohesive, harmonious unit as we pursue a singular vision.

Our purpose together at Mercy Health Partners Family Medicine Program is to…
Educate residents to become caring, compassionate, competent family physicians; provide the highest quality patient care and education to the people we are privileged to serve; and continually improve through creativity, innovation and self-assessment.

Contact us to arrange a visit, clinical clerkship, preceptorship, senior elective or interview. We would like to hear from you. We are accredited by ACGME. Visit our website.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Barberton Family Practice is an unopposed, family medicine only, program in a 310-bed community hospital. We are located in a small city 40 minutes south of Cleveland. Because we are the only residency in this hospital, the residents receive individualized, one-on-one teaching by our specialists. They also have more unrestricted access to procedures and deliveries. Our medicine rotations are primary care focused and run by the family medicine residents and family medicine attendings. Our continuity clinic is staffed by six faculty, a full-time behavioral scientist, as well as community preceptors. The faculty is diverse in experience and dedicated to teaching and making the residents’ experience as worthwhile as possible. The residents perform pediatric rotations at nearby Children’s Medical Center of Akron.

The residents receive many benefits including free meals, free parking in an enclosed parking deck, private call rooms, competitive salary, health insurance, and memberships to Ohio Academy of Family Physicians and American Academy of Family Physicians.

Summa Barberton Hospital offers a full spectrum care with a large variety of specialists. The hospital is very supportive of the residency and highly respectful of family medicine. The hospital is continually growing, with a new cardiac catheterization suite and expanding cardiothoracic surgery, plus a new cancer center. There are also plans to build a new emergency department and add electronic medical records.

This residency is a great place to work and learn. We encourage you to look at our web site and contact us for more information.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

For the past 40 years, over 200 residents have received a comprehensive, three-year education in medical, behavioral and practice management skills at Summa Family Medicine Residency. This well-balanced curriculum maintains the flexibility to train you for virtually any primary care setting. Our faculty members are committed to family medicine education and skilled in teaching organic medicine, procedures, behavioral science, primary care research and practice management. Our program is accredited by both Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and American Osteopathic Association. We offer a two-track obstetrical curriculum that affords the opportunity to obtain either the basic two-months of training or an accelerated experience for those who desire additional proficiency in obstetrics. Opportunities are available for international global health rotations, resident leadership development activities and academic medicine experiences. Family physicians, both resident and attending, enjoy complete acceptance in the hospital and the community. Our residents are treated with respect on all their rotations and serve as equals to their colleagues in other specialties. Akron City Hospital and its parent, Summa Health System, provide medical education for 219 residents in 13 specialties and 3 fellowships. These individuals provide an excellent extension to the full-time family medicine faculty.

The Family Medicine Center, completed in 2006, functions like a family physician’s office to simulate a private practice setting. Our electronic health record and video precepting capabilities are vital to the education of our residents. Also, newly implemented are the emphasis tracks in procedural medicine, women’s health, health care disparities and physician community involvement.

To sum it all up – family medicine is thriving at Summa Health System/Akron City Hospital. We invite you to come take a closer look. You will like what you see!

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Toledo Hospital and W.W. Knight Family Medicine Center offer the facilities and resources to provide an educational experience that will prepare physicians for the unique needs of the family physician. The benefits of this unopposed residency include working and learning in a 794-bed major medical center with a wide diversity of patients and the latest in medical technology. As the oldest continually operating family medicine residency in the region, we employ a multidisciplinary approach to medical education that provides important training in all aspects of family medicine including obstetrics, pediatrics, care of ambulatory and hospital patients, practice administration, pharmacy, patient education, and community medicine.

In addition, we offer several concentrated track programs that allows you to focus your training on an area of interest including geriatrics, obstetrics, primary/traditional care, international medicine, rural medicine, urgent care or sports medicine (the opportunity to continue your training in a dually accredited Primary Care Sports Medicine Program exists). By joining our nationally recognized residency, you will take advantage of dual accreditation by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and American Osteopathic Association (AOA).

Toledo is a city known for its quality of life. A world-renowned Museum of Art, nationally recognized Zoological Gardens, restaurants, numerous metro and state park facilities, major college athletic programs, and convenient access to professional sporting events are only part of the perfect setting.

If you have made the decision that family medicine is your future, investigate the Toledo Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.

Wright State University Family Medicine Residency trains residents to accept their roles as concerned, competent physicians who function well in the full realm of family medicine, whether in rural, suburban or urban settings. We provide a rich blend of experiences, with representation from a broad range of age, socioeconomic, racial and ethnic groups.

• Technical competence in the diagnosis and management of common illnesses that constitute the majority of health visits to family physicians.
• Development of a process of diagnosis and treatment that considers the professional limits of family medicine and recognizes the need for timely, competent consultation or referral.
• Implementation of the biopsychosocial model as a means of understanding, and therefore treating, the “whole” patient.

We pride ourselves in having flexibility in the curriculum to maximize the individual resident’s specific needs or desires.

For specific program descriptions, including salary, benefits and background information, please visit the residency’s Web site directly or use AAFP’s residency information guide.