University Hospitals Community Consortium Regionals Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a community-based, osteopathically-oriented Family Medicine residency operating under the University Hospitals Community Consortium, training residents across rural, suburban, and urban sites (UH Geauga, St. John, Parma) while drawing on the broader twelve-hospital UH system. With over 30 years training osteopathic physicians, the program builds its identity around OMT/OPP integration, outpatient-centered continuity clinics, and a close-knit, family-style culture rather than research or subspecialty prestige. Research is systemwide and available through the UH Research & Education Institute but is not a stated expectation of the residency itself, and graduates' stated interests skew toward outpatient primary care, sports medicine, and preventive/lifestyle medicine. The program explicitly values local/regional ties, a "family" ethos, and resident wellbeing over competitive academic output, and requires non-DO graduates to complete defined OPP/OMT prerequisite training to fit its osteopathic pathway.