Memorial Health System Program

Program Identity & Fit

Memorial Health System's Emergency Medicine program is a community-based, unopposed residency in rural southeast Ohio along the Ohio River, serving a mixed rural, suburban, and industrial patient population across three clinical sites with STEMI, Primary Stroke Center, and Level III trauma verification plus on-site helipad transport. As an unopposed program, residents function as the frontline trauma, stroke, and STEMI team without competition from other trainees, yielding high procedural autonomy from the start of intern year. The program is heavily faculty-mentorship driven, pairing each resident with an individual faculty mentor, and emphasizes graduated responsibility, teaching medical student rotators, and preparation for independent community-based practice rather than subspecialty fellowship or academic research. Its identity is rooted in rural, osteopathic-influenced community emergency medicine, with core faculty predominantly DOs trained in community and osteopathic residency pathways.