Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Mercy Health Fairfield is a new, community-based family medicine residency built around a purpose-designed continuity clinic on a 211-bed hospital campus in Butler County, Ohio, emphasizing full-spectrum ambulatory training across preventive care, chronic disease management, in-office procedures, and behavioral health. The curriculum integrates OMT labs and osteopathic faculty alongside allopathic training, pediatric rotations at Dayton Children's and Primary Health Solutions, and geriatric/palliative exposure at a memory care facility, reflecting a broad primary-care generalist orientation rather than subspecialty focus. Scholarly activity (one QI project, one scholarly project) is a graduation requirement supported by a Regional Academic Research Coordinator, positioning research as expected infrastructure rather than a central identity driver. As an inaugural program, it explicitly invites residents to help shape curriculum and culture, valuing self-directed learners, leadership-oriented "trailblazers," and those drawn to community health and progressive autonomy over residents seeking an established, high-volume tertiary training pipeline.