Clarion Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Clarion Hospital's Family Medicine Residency is a small, rural community-based program (4 residents per year) embedded in a critical-access hospital serving Clarion, Forest, Jefferson, and Venango counties in north-central Pennsylvania. The curriculum emphasizes broad-scope, full-continuity generalist training-longitudinal outpatient clinic, obstetrics with prenatal-through-delivery continuity, and nursing home/geriatric longitudinal panels-reflecting preparation for unsupervised rural practice rather than subspecialty pipeline. Scholarly work is required but structured as a practical quality-improvement plus research project pairing rather than a hypothesis-driven research program. Notably, the program is merging into the Butler Family Medicine Residency as a "Clarion Rural Track" starting with the 2027 academic year, signaling a transition toward a rural-training-track model within a larger sponsoring program.