University of Cincinnati, West Chester Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

UC West Chester is a new (started 2023) community-based family medicine residency housed at a 160-bed community hospital in suburban Cincinnati, operating under the university infrastructure of the long-standing UC Department of Family and Community Medicine. Its identity blends community practice with academic backing: residents train in a newly renovated Family Medicine Practice and use West Chester Hospital's OB, ICU, ER, and newborn services, while completing pediatrics and pediatric emergency rotations at Cincinnati Children's Liberty Campus. The curriculum has an explicit community medicine emphasis, built through partnerships with an FQHC/school-based health center, a university student health center, a county health department, and skilled nursing/assisted living facilities, reflecting a population-health and continuity-of-care orientation rather than a subspecialty or procedural focus. As a small, newly established program (6 residents/class, expanding to 8 by 2027) within a department with a broad primary care research division, it offers access to research and global/underserved health mentorship without positioning research as central to training.