Mercy Health - Anderson Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, community-based, three-year emergency medicine residency explicitly structured to counter the urban skew of newer EM programs by training rural emergency physicians, with longitudinal exposure to a critical access ED (Mt. Orab) throughout all three years alongside a moderate-volume community ED (Anderson, ~37,000 visits/year, 17% critically ill) and pediatric EM rotations at Cincinnati Children's and Nationwide Children's-Toledo. The program pairs standard community EM training with a deliberate wellness and leadership-coaching infrastructure (executive coaching, 360 evaluations, team-building) led by a program director with a military and executive-coaching background, and expects one research project plus one Global Health/Health Equity project per resident rather than positioning itself as research-driven. Career orientation is toward community and rural clinical practice rather than academic or fellowship tracks, with graduated clinical autonomy (patient-per-hour benchmarks by PGY year) and named electives (Rural EM, Global Health/Health Equity, EMS, Event Medicine) reinforcing this identity. The program values candidates who demonstrate resilience, community-service orientation, and adaptability to both rural and community hospital settings over research pedigree or subspecialty ambition.