SSM Health St Anthony Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

SSM Health St. Anthony is a faith-based, community hospital family medicine residency in Oklahoma City that trains largely unopposed residents in a high-volume, procedurally rich environment serving a complex, urban underserved, majority Medicaid/Medicare patient population. Its identity centers on full-scope generalist training - obstetrics with in-house C-section backup and tiered delivery competencies, robust inpatient procedural exposure (central lines, thoracentesis, paracentesis, POCUS), and an integrated osteopathic curriculum with dedicated OMT clinics for DO residents - rather than subspecialty fellowship preparation. Research exists through the Clin-IQ scholarly project but functions as a structured requirement rather than an academic driver, while named tracks (Hospital Medicine, Obstetrics, Missions) let residents formalize a practice focus. The program explicitly weaves spiritual care and Christian mission language into its curriculum and graduate outcomes skew toward ambulatory, rural, hospitalist, and underserved/community practice rather than academic or subspecialty careers.