Firelands Regional Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

A community hospital residency in northern Ohio with 12 ACGME-approved positions and a three-year curriculum organized around ambulatory care, chronic disease management, inpatient medicine, office procedures and practice management. Continuity care occurs at Family Health Services, a federally qualified health center, where residents carry their own patient panel and perform osteopathic manipulative treatment, colposcopy, endometrial biopsy, joint injections, minor skin surgery, cryosurgery, point-of-care ultrasound and dermoscopy. Most inpatient rotations are at Firelands, with additional rotations at Fisher-Titus Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital and ProMedica Memorial Hospital, plus structured training in end-of-life care and nursing home medicine. The program runs an integrative medicine track affiliated with the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and a practice management series covering contract negotiation, risk management and billing, and reports that many graduates have entered fellowship training.