HCA Healthcare Kansas City-Research Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a 52-year-old community hospital-based Family Medicine program at Research Medical Center, a 590-bed Level 1 trauma and tertiary referral center in urban Kansas City, functioning as one of only two residency programs (unopposed for primary care) at the sponsoring institution. The program trains residents in comprehensive, full-scope family medicine for a complex, underserved, culturally diverse patient population, with continuity clinic at Goppert-Trinity Family Care Clinic (25,000 visits/year) and pediatric inpatient training at Children's Mercy Hospital. Distinctive structural features include four optional named tracks (Integrative Medicine via University of Arizona, Community Medicine through a partnering FQHC focused on HIV/Hep C/gender-affirming care, Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, and a developing Hospitalist track with procedural volume requirements), plus a notably strong POCUS curriculum with dedicated simulation access. Research is institutionally supported (HCA's national research infrastructure, Scholarly Commons, in-house journal) but not central to program identity, which instead emphasizes broad outpatient/inpatient clinical competency and service to underserved communities within an unopposed, procedurally engaged community training environment.