TriHealth Bethesda North Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

Bethesda Family Medicine is a community-based, unopposed residency (occasionally teaching alongside OB residents) built around a single continuity site, the Bethesda Family Practice Center, and a primary teaching hospital, Bethesda North, supplemented by four months of pediatric training at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. The program's identity centers on producing generalist family physicians who staff Cincinnati and the surrounding region, while also supporting fellowship-bound residents through internal Sports Medicine and Obesity Medicine tracks and external placements in Palliative Care, Geriatrics, and Intensive Care. Structured continuity clinic responsibility scales by PGY year (one to three half-days weekly), and faculty interests in population health, social determinants of health, epidemiology, and women's health create applied research and scholarly opportunities rather than a bench-research mandate. The program explicitly names diversity, equity, and inclusion as long-standing values, citing that 20% of current residents are underrepresented minorities in medicine.