Case Western Reserve University-University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a university-based, tertiary/quaternary academic Med-Peds program built on the tight integration of University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, the Louis Stokes Wade Park VA, and Case Western Reserve University, with residents fully embedded as categorical trainees on both the medicine and pediatrics sides. Scholarly work is a structured expectation for every resident (dedicated curriculum, a resident-only statistician, QI training, and a research track), producing a visible stream of resident publications and national presentations across bench, clinical, QI, and advocacy domains. Named tracks in global health, advocacy, research, and medical education, plus a med-peds young-adult consult service, signal a program built to shape residents toward varied post-graduate paths rather than a single funnel, and outcomes explicitly include subspecialty fellowship, academic med-peds hospitalist work, primary care, and private practice. The program foregrounds a small, close-knit resident community (four spots/year), heavy mentorship structuring (program director, career mentor, faculty advisor, faculty coach, peer mentor), and an underserved-population focus, including a dedicated primary care site for underserved women and children and explicit attention to young adults with special needs.