Mercy Health-St Rita's Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

Mercy Health-St. Rita's is a community-based, outpatient-focused family medicine residency in Lima, Ohio, anchored by a Level II trauma center serving a blue-collar city and surrounding rural counties. The program is explicitly leadership-focused, giving residents their own continuity patient panel with pharmacist support, rural clinic exposure in Bluffton, and flexibility to tailor training toward interests such as OMT, integrative medicine, or procedural work. Scholarly activity, teaching (residents instruct medical students in PGY2-3), and quality improvement are expected of all residents, but the program's stated mission centers on communication, empathy, and cultivating physician-leaders engaged in local and state medical societies rather than research output. Faculty exemplify a returning-to-rural-roots, full-scope-practice trajectory, and the program values team-oriented, positive residents suited to a close-knit "Lima Nice" culture.