Jewish Hospital of Cincinnati Program

Program Identity & Fit

The Jewish Hospital Internal Medicine Residency is a community-based, faith-heritage tertiary referral program in suburban Cincinnati (Kenwood), historically rooted in serving indigent and underserved populations regardless of faith, now under Mercy Health. Training is broad-based general internal medicine with a heavy elective load in PGY-2/3 (7.5-9.5 blocks), a primary care outpatient rotation in private-practice settings, simulation-based procedural training, and a required quality improvement project rather than a research mandate. Scholarly output is limited to case reports and poster presentations, indicating research is supported but not central to program identity. The program explicitly states its goal is not to funnel residents into competitive fellowships but to cultivate self-improvement, compassion, and versatility, with graduates going on to community and academic practice, fellowship, primary care, and hospitalist medicine in roughly even measure.